Abstract:Background. Beginning in 1978, a very high prevalence of human infection by Fasciola hepatica began to be documented in the Andean plateau of Bolivia, a country where the disease had never been reported. Materials and methods. Our goal is to present a chronological overview of the studies. The retrospective review highlights gray literature conducted before 1990 and research found in electronic databases from 1989. Results. It took over forty years to get an answer to the registry of Fasciola hepatica infectio… Show more
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