Detection of Trichinella spiralis in a horse during routine examination in Italy

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1613-1621

  Pozio, E ^a   Tamburrini, A ^a   Sacchi, L ^b   Morales, M A Gomez ^a   Corona, S ^b   Goffredo, E ^c   La Rosa, G ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c Laboratory of Food Bacteriology   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Horse meat; Italy; Nurse cell larva complex; Romania; Trichinella spiralis; Trichinellosis; Worm burden

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HORSE; ITALY; MEAT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; TRICHINOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; ITALY; LARVA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROMANIA; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; TRICHINOSIS;

EID: 0031455344     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(97)00133-1     Document Type: Article

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