TY - JOUR
T1 - Trichinella infection and clinical disease
AU - Clausen, M R
AU - Meyer, C N
AU - Krantz, T
AU - Moser, C
AU - Gomme, G
AU - Kayser, L
AU - Albrectsen, J
AU - Kapel, Christian Moliin Outzen
AU - Bygbjerg, I C
N1 - Keywords: Animals; Antinematodal Agents; Female; Humans; Middle Aged; Muscle, Skeletal; Trichinella spiralis; Trichinosis
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - Trichinellosis is caused by ingestion of insufficiently cooked meat contaminated with infective larvae of Trichinella species. The clinical course is highly variable, ranging from no apparent infection to severe and even fatal disease. We report two illustrative cases of trichinellosis. Returning to Denmark a few days after having eaten roasted pork in the Republic of Serbia, a female patient suffered from severe vomiting, epigastric pain, diarrhoea, and later myalgia, arthralgia, generalized oedema, and prostration. A biopsy showed heavy infestation with Trichinella spiralis, 2000 larvae/g of muscle. Life-threatening cardiopulmonary, renal and central nervous system complications developed. The patient recovered after several months. Her husband, who also ate the pork, did not have clinical symptoms, but an increased eosinophil count and a single larva in a muscle biopsy confirmed infection. The epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of trichinellosis are reviewed.
AB - Trichinellosis is caused by ingestion of insufficiently cooked meat contaminated with infective larvae of Trichinella species. The clinical course is highly variable, ranging from no apparent infection to severe and even fatal disease. We report two illustrative cases of trichinellosis. Returning to Denmark a few days after having eaten roasted pork in the Republic of Serbia, a female patient suffered from severe vomiting, epigastric pain, diarrhoea, and later myalgia, arthralgia, generalized oedema, and prostration. A biopsy showed heavy infestation with Trichinella spiralis, 2000 larvae/g of muscle. Life-threatening cardiopulmonary, renal and central nervous system complications developed. The patient recovered after several months. Her husband, who also ate the pork, did not have clinical symptoms, but an increased eosinophil count and a single larva in a muscle biopsy confirmed infection. The epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of trichinellosis are reviewed.
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 8935484
SN - 1460-2725
VL - 89
SP - 631
EP - 636
JO - QJM - Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians
JF - QJM - Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians
IS - 8
ER -
