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Trombiculiasis: an underreported ectoparasitosis in Sicily
2018
Trombiculiasis is a common but underreported ectoparasitosis characterized by an infestation of the skin by the larval stage of various species of mites belonging to the phylum Arthropoda, class Arachnida, subclass Acarina. Clinical manifestations consist of pruritic erythematous and urticarial macules and papules located on covered thin and glabrous skin. In recent studies Neotrombicula autumnalis larvae have been described as the possible vectors of pathogens such as Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum. Few reports of trombiculosis have been collected in the medical literature to date. We report a typical case of trombiculosis induced by trombiculid larvae of N. autumnalis,…
Fasciola hepatica phenotypic characterization in Andean human endemic areas: Valley versus altiplanic patterns analysed in liver flukes from sheep fr…
2011
Fascioliasis is a zoonotic parasitic disease caused by Fasciola hepatica and Fasciola gigantica. Of both species, F. hepatica is the only one described in the Americas, mainly transmitted by lymnaeid snail vectors of the Galba/. Fossaria group. Human fascioliasis endemic areas are mainly located in high altitude areas of Andean countries. Given the necessity to characterize F. hepatica populations involved, the phenotypic features of fasciolid adults infecting sheep present in human fascioliasis endemic areas were analysed in the Cajamarca Valley and Mantaro Valley (valley transmission patterns) and the northern Bolivian Altiplano (altiplanic transmission pattern). A computer image analysis…
Caracterización Fenética y Genética de Individuos del Género Fasciola Linnaeus, 1758 (Trematoda: Fasciolidae) de México
2017
La fascioliasis es una importante enfermedad causada por dos especies de trematodos, Fasciola hepatica y Fasciola gigantica, que incluye un amplio espectro de especies hospedadoras definitivas tanto domésticas como silvestres. En el presente trabajo, como primer paso, se realizó una revisión bibliográfica exhaustiva de todos los casos humanos de fascioliasis en México, reportados tanto en la literatura mexicana, como casos de pacientes mexicanos diagnosticados en Canadá y USA. El estudio fenético y genético se realizó con adultos del parásito, obtenidos de bovinos del matadero de la Ciudad de Toluca, Estado de México, México, zona de endemia humana. Para el estudio fenético comparativo se u…