Outbreak of trichinellosis caused by Trichinella papuae, Thailand, 2006.

ABSTRACT: In 2006, the Thailand Ministry of Public Health studied 28 patients from a village in northern Thailand. All had myalgia, edema, fever, and gastrointestinal symptoms; most had eaten wild boar. A muscle biopsy specimen from a patient showed nonencapsulated larvae with a cytochrome oxidase I gene sequence of Trichinella papuae.

SUBMITTER: Khumjui C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2634638 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature