Fasciola Home page

(Example of a 'Parasite Home Page').

Where do you want to start? A life cycle diagram,  morphology in the tables below, pharmacology, biochemistry, neurotransmitters. Something about F. gigantica? (under construction.)

Links to Fasciola sites are at the foot of the page 'Wormland' and other sites:

INSIDE THE ADULT FLUKE: Fasciola	Histology:     (unlabelled) Whole Mount   + Transverse section of adult in liver  Guest Pages
Inside the ventral sucker: (arrangement of musculature).                        Original Diagram	Inside the oesophagus                Original Diagram

INSIDE THE LARVAL STAGES:	Whole egg picture                             Guest Page
The miracidium                  Guest Page	The cercaria                               Original Diagram
Cyst     the quiescent stage: the metacercaria                                              Original Diagram

Newly excysted juvenile of  Fasciola hepatica   © Dr. Clive Bennett 1999

© Dr. Clive Bennett 1998 and 1999