OBJECTIVE: [corrected] The study is a recompilation of the reported human cases of Fasciola hepatica infection in Peru since 1963 to 2005. METHODS: We review the electronic documentation of bibliographic resources in MEDLINE, LILACS, libraries of the medical, veterinary, philosophy and sciences faculties of the main universities and scientific institutions from Peru. We include all the references from national and international journals who report Peruvian cases of fasciolosis. RESULTS: 1701 subjects in total were report in Peru between 1963 and 2005. The range of the age of the reported cases goes from 1 year to 71 years. Females were significative more common than males. 191cases were acute (11%); 1313 chronic (77.1%); y 167, chronic asymptomatic (9.8%). The reported cases came from 17/24 departments of Peru that represent 71% of the; Peruvian territory. The number the reported cases are increasing during the last decade to reach 54.1 cases in the last decade. CONCLUSIONS. Due to the significative increase of reported cases in the last 4 decades, human fasciolosis is an emergent parasitary infective disease in humans in Peru and we need preventive and control national health programs for this zoonosis.
OBJECTIVE: [corrected] The study is a recompilation of the reported human cases of Fasciola hepatica infection in Peru since 1963 to 2005. METHODS: We review the electronic documentation of bibliographic resources in MEDLINE, LILACS, libraries of the medical, veterinary, philosophy and sciences faculties of the main universities and scientific institutions from Peru. We include all the references from national and international journals who report Peruvian cases of fasciolosis. RESULTS: 1701 subjects in total were report in Peru between 1963 and 2005. The range of the age of the reported cases goes from 1 year to 71 years. Females were significative more common than males. 191cases were acute (11%); 1313 chronic (77.1%); y 167, chronic asymptomatic (9.8%). The reported cases came from 17/24 departments of Peru that represent 71% of the; Peruvian territory. The number the reported cases are increasing during the last decade to reach 54.1 cases in the last decade. CONCLUSIONS. Due to the significative increase of reported cases in the last 4 decades, human fasciolosis is an emergent parasitary infective disease in humans in Peru and we need preventive and control national health programs for this zoonosis.
Authors: Luis A Gomez-Puerta; Cesar Gavidia; Maria T Lopez-Urbina; Hector H Garcia; Armando E Gonzalez Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg Date: 2012-03 Impact factor: 2.345
Authors: Miguel M Cabada; Alejandro Castellanos-Gonzalez; Martha Lopez; María Alejandra Caravedo; Eulogia Arque; Arthur Clinton White Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg Date: 2016-03-14 Impact factor: 2.345
Authors: Miguel M Cabada; Mary R Goodrich; Brittany Graham; Pablo G Villanueva-Meyer; Martha Lopez; Eulogia Arque; A Clinton White Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg Date: 2014-09-08 Impact factor: 2.345
Authors: Samantha N McNulty; Jose F Tort; Gabriel Rinaldi; Kerstin Fischer; Bruce A Rosa; Pablo Smircich; Santiago Fontenla; Young-Jun Choi; Rahul Tyagi; Kymberlie Hallsworth-Pepin; Victoria H Mann; Lakshmi Kammili; Patricia S Latham; Nicolas Dell'Oca; Fernanda Dominguez; Carlos Carmona; Peter U Fischer; Paul J Brindley; Makedonka Mitreva Journal: PLoS Genet Date: 2017-01-06 Impact factor: 5.917
Authors: Daniel A Zárate-Rendón; Johnny Vlaminck; Bruno Levecke; Andrea Briones-Montero; Peter Geldhof Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg Date: 2019-07 Impact factor: 2.345