Zoonoses Animal and Human Diseases Endo and Ectoparasites Mainly Mammal II

Abstract

Flukes are vertebrate parasites with one or more intermediate snail hosts. Best known is the liver fluke Fasciola gigantica which inhabits the bile duct and gall bladder of the vertebrate host. It is widely spread and reported from at least ten different species of wild animal. Graber and Thal (1979a) described its central African area of distribution as the river basins of Chari and Oubangui, from the centre of Chad to the frontier with DR Congo. Many of the foyers were where contact between infected domestic animals and wild ruminants was possible, zones where at certain times domestic animals from Chad invaded and passed down to Bangui and other centres.