Dr. Murai Éva szerk.: Parasitologia Hungarica 22. (Budapest, 1989)

A review of chemotherapy of paramphistomosis of domestic ruminants in Europe Dr. Ottó SEY Department of Zoology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Keszthely, Hungary "A review of chemotherapy of paramphistomosis of domestic ruminants in Europe". - Sey, O. - Parasit, hung., 22_: 51-55. 1989. ABSTRACT. Paramphistomosis is a disease caused by infection with rumen flukes. Of the species present In Europe, Calicophoron daubneyi

, C. mlcrobot hrtum, Paramphistomum cervi and P. ichikawai might be Incriminated as causative agents. Anthelmintics that have been used against rumen flukes of domestic ruminants are reviewed and further details are given on the most effective drugs. KEY WORDS: Paramphistomosis, European domestic ruminants, chemotherapy During the last 30 years there have been many studies on various aspects of Infection with amphistomes in Europe. The vast amount of data in the literature was taxonomically reviewed by SEY (1980), and it was demonstrated that the species of amphi stomes existing In Europe are Calicophoron daubneyi

, C. microbothrlum

, C. mtcrobothrioides, Paramphis tomum cervi

, P. gotoi, P

. ichikawai and Gastrothylax crumenifer

. Of the species listed C. daubneyi, C. microbothrlum

, Paramphistomum cervi

, P. ichikawai are the most common and widely distributed species, depending on the presence of the susceptible intermediate snail host(s) and their abundance on the pasture. One or another of these species might be incriminated as the causative agent of paramphistomosis. The papers embracing the topic of paramphistomosis in Europe are different In nature, they are either case reports or descriptions of subclinical or clinical paramphistomosis. Outbreaks of acute paramphistomosis were reported by BORAY (1959) In Hungary, CVETKOVIC (1968) and VUJIC et al. (1971) in Yugoslavia, DE INA et al. (1962) and MORETTINI et al. (1984) in Italy, ORLOVA (1953), DEUSOV (1955), TSVETAEVA (1959), MEREMTNSKn and GLUZMAN (1967) and ZHARIKOV et al. (1958) In the USSR, VARTTC et al. (1982) In Romania, VISNYAKOV and IVANOV (1963) and GEORGIEV and GRUEV (1977) in Bulgaria, GUILHON and PRIOUZEAU (1945) in France and ANCZYKOWSKY and CHOWANIEC (1955) in Poland. Field observations show, however, that the disease is more frequent and is often not diagnosed, thus the losses associated with paramphistomosis are underestimated.