[Fasciola hepatica distomatosis in Maghreb. 2 new Algerian cases]

A bibliographic survey is made of the cases of fasciolasis in Maghreb, and it can be concluded that: The notion of "epidemy", or better, of simultaneous cases, brought to the diagnosis evocation, to explorations by I.D.R. and to early treatment, before the excretion of eggs. Due to drug-efficiency, the coprological proof of the disease was generally missing in the old "epidemies" of the Maghreb. Isolated cases, in contrast, where the fasciolasic etiology was not evocated, could follow natural evolution and the proof by egg or adult discovery was possible in more than half the cases. Progress in immunology of fasciolasis made possible the diagnosis of less than 10 nw cases in Tunisia and Marocco. The authors report 2 new cases from the Constantine region (Algeria). The repartition of the ascertained cases and the possible ones is shown on a map.