Epidemiology of Trichinella infection in wild boar from Spain and its impact on human health during the period 2006-2019.

ABSTRACT: Trichinellosis is a notifiable zoonotic disease caused by parasitic nematode larvae belonging to the genus Trichinella. Domestic pig and wild boar are important hosts within the natural cycle of T. spiralis, the last one being an animal whose populations have experienced an important growth. Therefore, this paper studies the prevalence of Trichinella infection in wild boar in Spain, as well as its relation with hunting and its impact on public health during the period 2006-2019. For this purpose, different sources of information were consulted and analyzed depending on the autonomous communities of Spain and years. During the fourteen years of study, the number of wild boars hunted and the number of cases of Trichinella infection in them increased (from 172 case

SUBMITTER: Moral SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9385551 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature