Ierisiniozy are found everywhere and registered in all countries of the world. For example, in Belarus the incidence varies between 3.6-4.2 cases per 100 thousand of the population.
Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease caused by Leishmania parasites. It is characterized by remittent fever, anemia, a sharp increase in the spleen, liver, cachexia.
Opisthorchiasis is a parasitic disease caused by hepatic trematodes that affect the hepatobiliary system and pancreas. It is characterized by polymorphism of clinical manifestations and chronic course.
Leptospirosis is widespread on all continents. At the end of XIX century. German physician A. Weyl (1886) and Russian researcher N.P. Vasiliev (1889) reported a special form of infectious jaundice, which occurs with liver, kidney and hemorrhagic syndrome.
There are two echinococcal liver diseases with a chronic course - the echinococcal cyst caused by Echinococcus granulosus larvae and Echinococcus multilocularis alveolococcosis.
Liver amebiasis is caused by Entamoeba histolytica, which is capable of parasitizing in the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract. In some infected, amoeba penetrates the intestinal wall or is disseminated to other organs, especially the liver.
The defeat of the liver in the form of toxo-carcinogenic hepatitis is observed in 65-87% of patients. The disease manifests itself feverish condition, lung damage, hepatomegaly, eosinophilia, hypergammaglobulinemia.
