ABSTRACT
Shahr-e Sukhteh (meaning burnt city in Persian) in Iran is an archeological site dated back to around 3,200-1,800 BC. It is located in Sistan and Baluchistan Province of Iran and known as the junction of Bronze Age trade routes crossing the Iranian plateau. It was appointed as current study area for paleoparasitological investigations. Excavations at this site have revealed various archeological materials since 1967. In the present study, sheep and carnivore coprolites excavated from this site were analyzed by means of rehydration technique using TSP solution for finding helminth eggs. Dicrocoelium dendriticum, Capillaria sp., and Taenia sp. eggs were identified, while some other objects similar to Anoplocephalidae and Toxocara spp. eggs were also retrieved from the samples but their measured parameters did not match those of these species. The present paper illustrates the first paleoparasitological findings of Bronze Age in eastern Iran supporting the economic activities, peopling, and communication as well as the appropriate condition for zoonotic helminthiasis life cycle in Shahr-e Sukhteh archeological site.
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Animals , Capillaria , Dicrocoelium , Eggs , Feces , Fluid Therapy , Helminthiasis , Helminths , Iran , Life Cycle Stages , Ovum , Sheep , Taenia , ToxocaraABSTRACT
Infection with Dicrocoelium dendriticum in humans is seldom to be reported in Egypt. This liver fluke, which commonly infects ruminants, has a complex life cycle with two intermediate hosts; the land snail and the ant. Human infection occurs by accidental ingestion of the second intermediate host. The present reported a patient suffered from recurrent acute chole-cystitis with chronic urinary schistosomiasis whose Kato stool examination showed Dicroceolium dendriticum eggs. He was successfully treated with Mirazid
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Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Dicrocoelium , Schistosomiasis haematobia , Chronic DiseaseSubject(s)
Adult , Animals , Dicrocoeliasis/complications , Dicrocoelium/immunology , Female , Humans , UrticariaABSTRACT
In this study, 18 clinically and parasitologically proven human Dicrocoeliasis dendriticum patients were successfully and safely treated by the myrrh extract of Commiphora molmol [mirazid]. The dose was 2 capsules [300 mg each] given on an empty stomach at one hour before breakfast for six successive days; cure [100%] was achieved clinically and by stool analysis for two-month follow up. In addition, 15 sheep naturally infected with Dicrocoeliasis dendriticum as proven parasitologically were successfully and safely treated with 2 capsules [300 mg each] on an empty stomach at one hour before breakfast for four successive days; cure [100%] was successfully achieved by stool analysis for seven days and macroscopically for the detection of any adult worm after slaughtering. The total dose required to treat the infected sheep [2400 mg] was less than that required for the human treatment [3600 mg]
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Humans , Animals , Male , Female , Plant Extracts , Sheep , Treatment Outcome , DicrocoeliumABSTRACT
Dicrocoelium dendriticum is a common liver fluke of sheep and other herbivorous animals. Stool samples were collected. Detection of Dicrocoelium eggs were done by direct smear as well as by the simple sedimentation methods. Verification of the stool results was confirmed by demonstrating the adult worms in the bile ducts of the sheep after being slaughtered [PM]. The results revealed that 40% of the Solmalian sheep had dicrocoeliasis as indicated by stool examination and verified by PM examination. Also, Turkish sheep showed 26 positive percentage, while breed sheep showed 2%, i.e. one sheep was infected with D. dendriticum