@article{1464,
  keywords = {giant liver fluke, Bavaria, spread, triclabendazole, deer},
  author = {C Plötz and S Rehbein and H Bamler and H Reindl and K Pfister and M Scheuerle},
  title = {Fascioloides magna – epizootiology in a deer farm in Germany},
  abstract = { After initial observations of suspicious cases in 2009, the occurrence of Fascioloides (F.)  magna in deer of a deer farm located in northeastern Bavaria, Germany, at the border  to the Czech Republic was confirmed in autumn 2011. In March 2012, the deer were  treated for fascioloidosis with triclabendazole. To monitor the epizootiology of fascioloidosis  in the farm, 80–100 faecal samples were examined for Fascioloides eggs at monthly  intervals from June 2012 to June 2013 inclusive. In addition, livers of 27 red deer and  one sika deer collected during winter 2012/2013 were examined for gross lesions suspicious  for F. magna infection and 21 of the 28 livers were dissected for F. magna recovery.  Fascioloides eggs were recorded in 63 (4.9%) of 1280 faecal samples (range 0.4 to 355  eggs per gram). Both, number of Fascioloides-egg positive samples and egg counts  were low during the first eight months of the study but increased notably since February  2013. While Fascioloides egg-positive faecal samples were obtained from red deer  (46/948, 4.9%) and fallow deer (17/166, 10.2%), no Fascioloides eggs were demonstrated  in the 166 samples obtained from sika deer. Livers of five red deer and the sika deer  showed gross lesions characteristic for fascioloidosis, and F. magna were recovered from  three of the five affected red deer livers (range, five to seven flukes). Results of this study  confirm that F. magna is endemic in the deer farm, and measures should be implemented  to minimize the transmission of the parasite. },
  year = {2015},
  journal = {Berliner und Münchener Tierärztliche Wochenschrift},
  volume = {128},
  pages = {177-182},
  month = {01/2015},
  publisher = {Schlütersche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG},
  address = {Hannover},
  issn = {0005-9366},
  doi = {10.2376/0005-9366-128-177},
  language = {English},
}