why liver fluke is called liver fluke
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Fascioliasis is an infectious disease caused by Fasciola parasites, which are flat worms referred to as liver flukes. The adult (mature) flukes are found in the bile ducts and liver of infected people and animals, such as sheep and cattle. ... A related species, Fasciola gigantica, also can infect people
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Liver fluke is a collective name of a polyphyletic group of parasitic trematodes under the phylum Platyhelminthes.They are principally parasites of the liver of various mammals, including humans. Capable of moving along the blood circulation, they can occur also in bile ducts, gallbladder, and liver parenchyma. In these organs, they produce pathological lesions leading to parasitic diseases. They have complex life cycles requiring two or three different hosts, with free-living larval stages in water. got it?
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