Schwertz CI, Henker LC, Mendes RE. Comments on eurytrematosis in Brazil and the possibility of human infection. World J Exp Med 2017; 7(1): 40-41 [PMID: 28261554 DOI: 10.5493/wjem.v7.i1.40]
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Ricardo E Mendes, PhD, Laboratório de Patologia Veterinária, Instituto Federal Catarinense, Campus Concórdia. SC 283, Km 8, Concórdia, Santa Catarina 89703-720, Brazil. ricardo.mendes@ifc-concordia.edu.br
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World J Exp Med. Feb 20, 2017; 7(1): 40-41 Published online Feb 20, 2017. doi: 10.5493/wjem.v7.i1.40
Comments on eurytrematosis in Brazil and the possibility of human infection
Claiton I Schwertz, Luan C Henker, Ricardo E Mendes
Claiton I Schwertz, Luan C Henker, Ricardo E Mendes, Laboratório de Patologia Veterinária, Instituto Federal Catarinense, Concórdia, Santa Catarina 89703-720, Brazil
Author contributions: Schwertz CI and Mendes RE wrote and revised this letter; Henker LC revised this letter.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Ricardo E Mendes, PhD, Laboratório de Patologia Veterinária, Instituto Federal Catarinense, Campus Concórdia. SC 283, Km 8, Concórdia, Santa Catarina 89703-720, Brazil. ricardo.mendes@ifc-concordia.edu.br
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Received: July 7, 2016 Peer-review started: July 14, 2016 First decision: September 12, 2016 Revised: September 16, 2016 Accepted: November 16, 2016 Article in press: November 17, 2016 Published online: February 20, 2017 Processing time: 225 Days and 12.1 Hours
Abstract
The manuscript “Eurytrematosis: An emerging and neglected disease in South Brazil” discusses some aspects of Eurytrema sp. fluke as an animal pathogen and based in some aspects of the parasitism in cattle and the life cycle of Eurytrema sp. Authors suggest the possibility of human infection, once there is no research on this subject in Brazil. In human cases reported, the mechanism of infection was not disclosed, so it keeps the discussion opened. Although we focused on animal eurytrematosis, we speculated the possibility of human infection by Eurytrema sp. in Brazil, but after all, the only way to determine it, would be a study searching for people infected through coprological or serological tests.
Core tip: The possibility of human infection by flukes of the genus Eurytrema in Brazil is reviewed. Based on the life cycle of the parasite and the high prevalence of infection in cattle, the possibility is suggested, although only an investigation with coprological or parasitological tests could give some reliable information.
