Santiago Mas-Coma

TL;DR: Fasciolopsiasis has become a re-emerging infection in recent years and gastrodiscoidiasis, initially supposed to be restricted to Asian countries, is now being reported in African countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the origins and geographical spread of F. gigantica and F. hepatica were investigated by means of complete sequences of ribosomal deoxyribonucleic acid (rDNA) internal transcribed spacer (ITS)−2 and ITS−1 and mitochondrial cox1 and nad1 from areas with only one fasciolid species.

TL;DR: In this article, the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene sequences of the following eight European Metastriata tick species were obtained by direct polymerase-chain-reaction cycle sequencing and silver-staining methods.

TL;DR: A global analysis of the distribution of human cases shows that the expected correlation between animal and human fascioliasis only appears at a basic level, and well-known epidemiological patterns of fasciliasis may not always explain the transmission characteristics in any given area and control measures should consider the results of ecoepidemiological studies undertaken in the zones concerned.

TL;DR: The present review shows that trematodes, similarly as other helminths presenting larval stages living freely in the environment and/or larval Stage parasitic in invertebrates easily affected by climate change as arthropods and molluscs as intermediate hosts, may be largely more susceptible to climate change impact than those helminthiases in whose life cycle such phases are absent or reduced to a minimum.