(n.) The disease produced by the presence of trichinae in the muscles and intestinal track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, and symptoms resembling those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal.
Example Sentences:
(1) An enzymatic and immunologic study of 18 patients with trichinosis leads to the following conclusions: The stage of muscular invasion in trichinosis is accompanied by a release of cellular enzymes representative of striated muscle fibres in nearly all the cases.
(2) Control strategies to prevent human trichinosis should include trichinosis surveillance of all commercial swine, as well as strict compliance with current regulations.
(3) Further investigation is needed to establish its role in the treatment of taeniasis, Hymenolepsis nana, Strongyloidiasis, Trichinosis, and Dipetalonema perstans.
(4) Parasitic zoonoses caused by nematodes, such as trichinosis, present a public health concern as well.
(5) This study indicates that both ketoconazole and mebendazole should be considered in the treatment of trichinosis in humans.
(6) In 1982, an epidemic of acute trichinosis occurred in Bitburg with 402 cases.
(7) The most important diseases are toxoplasmosis, taeniasis, cysticercosis, sparganosis, clonorchiasis, fascioliasis, fasciolopsiasis, paragonomiasis, echinostomiasis, trichinosis, gnathostomiasis, and angiostrongyliasis.
(8) Although fewer than 100 cases per year are reported to CDC, trichinosis continues to persist as a public health problem in this country.
(9) Tests for trichinosis and other parasites and for allergic and connective-tissues disorders were negative, and serum immunoglobulin concentrations and erythrocyte sedimentation rates were normal.
(10) Two outbreaks of trichinosis occurred in France in 1985 and 1,073 cases were identified.
(11) Mucosal peroxidase is localized in LP cells and its activity increases several-fold during intestinal trichinosis.
(12) E. coli pyelonephritis produced a similar adrenal response, although the peak serum corticosterone caused by pyelonephritis was less than the serum corticosterone occurring during the first peak of eosinophilia during trichinosis.
(13) This article reported the result of the chest radiographs of 14 patients with trichinosis, in regard to the X-ray manifestations, pathologic basis and clinical significance.
(14) The role of tail chewing in the transmission of trichinosis in swine is briefly discussed.
(15) Procedures known to deplete or inactivate the pool of recirculating lymphocytes such as neonatal thymectomy, administration of antilymphocyte serum, and prolonged thoracic duct drainage, either singly or in combination, resulted in a highly significant reduction in the eosinophil response to trichinosis.
(16) Trichinella spiralis is a parasite of carnivorous animals that causes the disease trichinosis.
(17) Clinical and morphologic observations are described in a 46 year old woman with fatal trichinosis.
(18) Trichinosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of eosinophilia in travelers returning from abroad.
(19) Before 1990, the proportion of cases of trichinosis attributable to consumption of commercial pork had declined steadily.
(20) A severe case of trichinosis occurred following the ingestion of raw meat from a common black bear, Ursus americanus, that was shot in Butte County, California.