Opisthorchiasis – a familiar stranger
AUTHORS : Skoroumova M.G.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : LLC “Center for Energy Information Medicine”, Samara, Russia
YEAR : 2007
Opisthorchiasishepatobiliary system and flow, flowing
– helminthiasis, pancreas, characterized by prolonged with frequent exacerbations, contributing to striking predominantly
the occurrence of primary cancer of the liver and pancreas. Etiology. The causative agents of opisthorchiasis are two types of trematodes of the
familyOpisthorchidae: Opisthorchis felineus and Opisthorchis viverrini. O. felineus (synonyms: cat fluke, Siberian fluke) has a flat body 4–13 mm long and 1–3.5 mm
wide. At the stage of puberty, O. felineus parasitizes in the intra- and extrahepatic bile ducts, in the gallbladder, pancreatic ducts of humans, cats, dogs, foxes, polar
foxes and some other carnivores. The intermediate host of the helminth is the freshwater gill molluskBithynia leachi. Additional hosts are fish of the carp family:
ide, dace, chebak, European roach, roach, tench, rudd, carp, bream, silver bream, podust, asp, bleak. O. viverrini very close to O. felineus
