Trichina worms (Trichinella spp.) are roundworms that can invade a wide range of animals and man. People are most often infected through eating trichina-containing pork. New research investigated the ...

DURING the last ten to fifteen years, diagnosis of Trichina infection in man (and partly also in swine) has been made easier by the adoption of different methods, based on the immunological response ...

- parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles ...

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