{"id":601,"date":"2009-05-16T13:46:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T08:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/?p=601"},"modified":"2009-06-03T00:25:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T18:55:14","slug":"fasiola-hepatica-liver-fluke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/pathological\/fasiola-hepatica-liver-fluke\/","title":{"rendered":"Fasiola hepatica: Liver fluke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This common liver fluke of sheep may also infect cattle, goats, rabbits, hares, horses, dogs, pigs, elephants and even man. Its almost leaf shaped and on average is 1-2 inches long, though elongated forms are not uncommon. Pathologically <em>F. hepatica<\/em> is important mainly in Cattle and Sheep. The usual site of infestation is the liver (bile ducts) but sometimes may also be found in other organs. Infestation is usually manifested as anaemia and hepatitis.<br \/>\n<em>Limnaea<\/em> snails act as intermediate hosts and the livestock ingest the cercariae encrusted on grass or swallowed with drinking water.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-602\" title=\"liver fluke , Fasciola hepatica\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/liver2.jpg\" alt=\"liver fluke , Fasciola hepatica\" width=\"554\" height=\"440\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-603\" title=\"liver fluke , Fasciola hepatica\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/liver1.jpg\" alt=\"liver fluke , Fasciola hepatica\" width=\"554\" height=\"553\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This common liver fluke of sheep may also infect cattle, goats, rabbits, hares, horses, dogs, pigs, elephants and even man. Its almost leaf shaped and on average is 1-2 inches long, though elongated forms are not uncommon. Pathologically F. hepatica is important mainly in Cattle and Sheep. The usual site of infestation is the liver [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[516,518,517],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pathological","tag-fasciola-hepatica","tag-fasiola","tag-liver-fluke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kashvet.org\/oasis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}