Human beings are highly susceptible to low doses of Trichinella spp.

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 210-218

  Teunis, P F M ^a,b   Koningstein, M ^c   Takumi, K ^a   Van Der Giessen, J W B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Outbreaks; risk assessment; zoonotic foodborne diseases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPOSURE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MEAT; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINOSIS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; LARVA; MEAT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARASITOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCTION; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLOSIS;

EID: 84455207597     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811000380     Document Type: Article

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