title: Trichinellosis in Thailand: epidemiology and biochemical identification of the aethiological agent.
abstract: The epidemiological picture of trichinellosis in Thailand is reported. In the last 25 years, about 3000 people have been affected with Trichinella and 85 patients died. The hill-tribe pig has been the main source of human infections. Parasites isolated from a patient in 1986 were shown, through isoenzymatic typing of 10 gene-enzyme systems, to be T. spiralis s.str. The epidemiological and zoogeographical implications are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio di Parassitologia, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pozio
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Khamboonruang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004592:Electrophoresis, Starch Gel; D006801:Humans; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000032:analysis; D013785:Thailand; D014234:Trichinella / Q000201:enzymology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014235:Trichinellosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000469:parasitology
chemical_list: D007527:Isoenzymes