Recent news on trichinellosis: another outbreak due to horsemeat consumption in France in 1993.
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A new outbreak of trichinellosis occurred in France in December 1993 and involved around 550 patients. The authors report here how recent knowledge on Trichinella have been helpful to investigate this outbreak.
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An expected outbreak of human trichinellosis for the consumption of horsemeat.
In late February 1998, an outbreak of human trichinellosis occurred in the town of Piacenza (northern Italy) among 92 persons who had eaten raw horsemeat. The source of infection was a horse imported to the abattoir of Brescia one month previously. Although the horse had been found to be positive for trichinellosis upon routine examination, the head of an uninfected horse was exchanged with the...
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In spite of routine controls to detect Trichinella larvae in horse-meat, human infections due to horse-meat consumption continue to occur in France and Italy. The epidemiology of horse trichinellosis since its discovery in 1975 is outlined, addressing the possible modes of natural transmission to horses, the need to develop more sensitive methods for detecting Trichinella larvae in horses, and ...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Parasite
دوره 1 2 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1994