Prevalence of fasciolosis and dicrocoeliosis in slaughtered sheep and goats in Amol Abattoir, Mazandaran, northern Iran

A retrospective survey of liver flukes in livestock based on abattoir data in Kermanshah, west of Iran

“…The differences in prevalence of liver flukes may arise due to differences in environmental conditions that are conducive for the perpetuation of the parasite, abundance of infected definitive hosts, livestock husbandry, stocking rate, the nature of the pasture and grazing patterns of animals (Khanjari et al 2014).…”

“…The presence of fasciolosis in Iran has long been known and its prevalence and economic significance has been reported by several researchers (Moghaddam et al 2004;Ansari-Lari and Moazzeni 2006;Ashrafi et al 2006;Borji and Parandeh 2010;Ghazani et al 2008;Oryan et al 2011;Khanjari et al 2014). Although a review of available literature strongly suggests that fasciolosis exists in almost all parts of the country, but its prevalence among domestic animals is higher in the southern part of the country, whereas the number of reported human disease cases is significantly higher in the Northern provinces (Khanjari et al 2014). The prevalence of human fasciolosis in many parts of Iran is quite high and was reported to be as high as 10,000 cases for some years (Massoud 1993;Abdou 2000).…”

“…Thus, the two fasciolid species overlap in many African and Asian countries, although in such cases the ecological requirements of the flukes and their snail intermediate host are distinct (Ashrafi et al 2006). The presence of fasciolosis in Iran has long been known and its prevalence and economic significance has been reported by several researchers (Moghaddam et al 2004;Ansari-Lari and Moazzeni 2006;Ashrafi et al 2006;Borji and Parandeh 2010;Ghazani et al 2008;Oryan et al 2011;Khanjari et al 2014). Although a review of available literature strongly suggests that fasciolosis exists in almost all parts of the country, but its prevalence among domestic animals is higher in the southern part of the country, whereas the number of reported human disease cases is significantly higher in the Northern provinces (Khanjari et al 2014).…”

“…Most of the published reports in Iran are from the central, southern and northern parts of the country and there was not any data about Fasciola and Dicrocoelium in the western Iran (Moghaddam et al 2004;Ansari-Lari and Moazzeni 2006;Ashrafi et al 2006;Borji and Parandeh 2010;Ghazani et al 2008;Oryan et al 2011;Khanjari et al 2014). Therefore this survey was designed to estimate the prevalence of liver flukes in abattoir populations of cattle, sheep and goats in the western part of Iran for the period 2008-2013.…”

Evaluation of molecular methods for the field study of the natural history of Dicrocoelium dendriticum

“…Dicrocoeliosis has been reported in sheep Senlik et al, 2008;Sargison et al, 2012;Bosco et al, 2015), goats (Jithendran and Bhat, 1996;Khanjari et al, 2014), cattle (Colwell and Goater, 2010), buffalo (Rinaldi et al, 2009), deer (Otranto et al, 2007), camels (Wahba et al, 1997), pigs (Capucchio et al, 2009) and llamas (Dadak et al, 2013) in specific ecological niches around the world. This generalist definitive host strategy extends to sympatric rodent (Berry and Tricker, 1969), lagomorph (Sargison et al, 2012) and ungulate (Goater and Colwell, 2007;Beck et al, 2014) wildlife.…”