Consumption of untested pork contributed to over two-thousand clinical cases of human trichinellosis in Romania

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 558-560

  Dobrescu, Cristina ^a   Hriscu, Horia ^b   Emandi, Mihaela ^c   Zamfir, Carmen ^d   Nemet, Codruta ^e  

^a Psychiatry and Neurology Hospital   (Romania)

^b Infectious Diseases Hospital and Clinic County Hospital   (Romania)

^c Public Health Department of Brasov   (Romania)

^d Department of Plastic Surgery Clinical Emergency County Hospital Brasov   (Romania)

^e TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

Author keywords

Consumers; Epidemiology; Outbreak; Patients; Trichinella

Indexed keywords

SUIDAE; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

ADULT; ANIMAL; CHILD; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FOOD CONTROL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MEAT; MORALITY; PARASITOLOGY; ROMANIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWINE; TIME; TRICHINELLOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE MORAL JUDGMENT; ROMANIA; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; TRICHINELLOSIS;

EID: 84922117543     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: 18036465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2014.055     Document Type: Article

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