PREVALENCE AND IDENTIFICATION OF LYMNAEIDAE TRANSMITTING SNAILS OF FASCIOLA HEPATICA LINNAEUS, 1758 (PLATYHELMINTHES, TREMATODA), IN THE SAN MARTÍN, COLUMBE COMMUNITY, CANTÓN …

Abstract:

Fasciolasis is a disease that causes economic losses in the livestock sector, with an estimated value of 3,000 million dollars annually worldwide, it is caused by Fasciola hepatica Linnaeus, 1758, which causes serious liver damage to grazing animals. This disease needs an intermediate host, who can only be the mollusks of the Lymnaeidae family and a definitive host (grazing animals or man). The objective of the research was to identify the Lymneid mollusks transmitting F. hepatica in San Martín of the Columbe parish, Chimborazo province, Ecuador to describe the morphological characteristics of the mollusks, establish the characteristics of the biotopes and determine the prevalence of both in mollusks infested with larval stages of the parasite, cattle parasitized with F. hepatica. A field sampling was carried out and information was collected to characterize the biotope, the morphological characteristics of the …

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2021

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