Figure 1.
Geographical distribution of patients, cattle, goats and snails.
The patients are indicated by red filled circles and the number of cases in a household is denoted by circle size. The infected cattle and goats are showed in purple share of pie chart. Triangles denote the snail-collecting sites. Open triangles indicate that no snails were observed in the water ponds, blue ones indicate that infected snails were discovered.
Table 1.
Manifestations of fascioliasis in 29 patients involved in an outbreak.
Figure 2.
Typical image of involved liver in contrast-enhanced computerized tomography.
The section shows the enlarged liver and spleen. The clusters of low density masses (arrows) in livers indicate the winding migration route of parasite.
Figure 3.
Axillary temperature profile of patients during the illness course.
The vertical hatched bar indicates the treatment date using triclabendazole. The fever is defined as over 37.2°C (dash line). The thick curve denotes the average temperature, which was produced by moving average with a period of 12 (equal to 3 days).
Table 2.
The change of major indicators after treatment with triclabendazole.
Figure 4.
Houttuynia cordata growing in water.
The herbs are fertilized by domestic animal faeces and Galba snails are stick to plants.
Figure 5.
Phylogeny of Fasciola spp. from the present study and other sources.
Red branches indicate the sequences from human stool sample. C represented as egg samples from cattle; G represented as egg samples from goat; H represented as eggs samples from human.