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- Disease: Fascioliasis, Liver rot in animals
- Habitat: Bile ducts of sheep and cattle; rarely in human
- Definitive host: Sheep, cattle and herbivorous mammals
- 02 Intermediate hosts: Snails and aquatic vegetation
- Diagnosis of infection: Microscopic examination of faeces to detect eggs
Morphological Features
- Size: up to 30 mm by 13 mm
- Flattened leaf-like shape
- Two heavily branched testes and fan-shaped ovary
- Similar to F. buski, except in following two main features:
- Has an oral cone and “shoulders”
- Intestinal caeca have lateral branches
Magnification x2
