Once ingested, the metacercaria excysts in the duodenum, and the juvenile worm ascends the biliary tract through the ampulla of Vater. The infectious metacercarial cyst stage is found in the meat of fish and shrimp as well as on the surfaces of water plants. The most important liver fluke species include Clonorchis sinensis, Fasciola spp. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.Īt present, more than 750 million people throughout the world are at risk for infection with liver flukes, with an endemic concentration in southeast Asia and the western Pacific region. ![]() 81271866), and Guangdong Province Universities and Colleges Pearl River Scholar Funded Scheme (2014) to HJP. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are creditedĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files.įunding: This research was supported by the funding of National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. Received: JanuAccepted: JPublished: July 17, 2015Ĭopyright: © 2015 Xia et al. PLoS ONE 10(7):Įditor: Mark Spigelman, Hebrew University, ISRAEL ![]() Citation: Xia J, Jiang S-c, Peng H-J (2015) Association between Liver Fluke Infection and Hepatobiliary Pathological Changes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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