Recent news on trichinellosis: another outbreak due to horsemeat consumption in France in 1993.
A new outbreak of trichinellosis occurred in France in December 1993 and involved around 550 patients. The authors report here how recent knowledge on Trichinella have been helpful to investigate this outbreak.
Dupouy-Camet
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Laboratoire de Parasitologie, Hôpital Cochin, Université René Descartes, Paris, France.
Soulé
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Ancelle
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