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  Fasciola hepatica w.m.

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This slide shows a stained whole mount of the sheep liver fluke (Fasciola hepatica).  This large trematode is a common parasite of sheep and cattle, which become infected by eating aquatic plants containing the encysted metacercariae (juvenile flukes).  Once ingested, the cyst walls are digested and the larvae burrow through the intestinal wall to the body cavity and eventually to the liver.

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