Valero M A, Darce N A, Panova M, Mas-Coma S
Departamento de Parasitología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Valencia, Av. Vicent Andrés Estellés s/n, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain.
Vet Parasitol. 2001 Dec 3;102(1-2):85-100. doi: 10.1016/s0304-4017(01)00499-x.
The highest prevalences and intensities of human fasciolosis by Fasciola hepatica are found in the northern Bolivian Altiplano, where sheep and cattle are the main reservoir host species and pigs and donkeys the secondary ones. Morphometric comparisons of many linear measurements, areas and ratios of F. hepatica adults (from sheep, cattle and pigs) and eggs (from sheep, cattle, pigs and donkeys) in natural liver fluke populations of the Bolivian Altiplano, as well as of F. hepatica adults and eggs experimentally obtained in Wistar rats infected with Altiplanic sheep, cattle and pig isolates, were made using computer image analysis and an allometric model. Although morphometric values of adult flukes from natural populations of sheep, cattle, and pigs showed great overlap, there were clear differences in allometric growth. The allometries analyzed were: body area (BA) versus body length (BL), BA versus body width (BW), BA versus perimeter (Pe), BA versus distance between posterior end of body and ventral sucker (P-VS), BL versus BW, BL versus Pe, and BL versus P-VS. These allometries show a good fit in the seven pairs of variables in all the populations examined. Comparative statistical analysis of the allometries shows that fluke adult populations from sheep, cattle and pigs significantly differ in BL versus BW and BL versus P-VS functions. Statistical analysis of F. hepatica egg size shows characteristic morphometric traits in each definitive host species. In experimentally infected rats, fluke adult allometry and egg morphometry do not vary depending on the Altiplanic definitive host species isolate. Our study reveals that the definitive host species decisively influences the size of F. hepatica adults and eggs, and these influences do not persist in a rodent definitive host model.
由肝片吸虫引起的人体片形吸虫病的最高流行率和感染强度出现在玻利维亚高原北部,那里绵羊和牛是主要的储存宿主物种,猪和驴是次要宿主物种。利用计算机图像分析和异速生长模型,对玻利维亚高原自然肝吸虫种群中肝片吸虫成虫(来自绵羊、牛和猪)和虫卵(来自绵羊、牛、猪和驴)的许多线性测量值、面积和比例进行了形态测量比较,以及对感染了高原绵羊、牛和猪分离株的Wistar大鼠实验获得的肝片吸虫成虫和虫卵进行了形态测量比较。尽管来自绵羊、牛和猪自然种群的成虫吸虫形态测量值有很大重叠,但在异速生长方面存在明显差异。分析的异速生长指标有:体面积(BA)与体长(BL)、BA与体宽(BW)、BA与周长(Pe)、BA与虫体后端至腹吸盘的距离(P-VS)、BL与BW、BL与Pe以及BL与P-VS。这些异速生长指标在所研究的所有种群的七对变量中都显示出良好的拟合。对这些异速生长指标的比较统计分析表明,来自绵羊、牛和猪的吸虫成虫种群在BL与BW以及BL与P-VS函数方面存在显著差异。肝片吸虫卵大小的统计分析显示了每个终末宿主物种的特征性形态测量特征。在实验感染的大鼠中,吸虫成虫的异速生长和虫卵形态测量不因高原终末宿主物种分离株而异。我们的研究表明,终末宿主物种对肝片吸虫成虫和虫卵的大小有决定性影响,而这些影响在啮齿动物终末宿主模型中不会持续存在。