Intradermal Test in the Detection of Trichinosis

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DURING the fall and winter of 1960–61, among Eskimo families at Bethel and Goodnews Bay, Alaska, there was an outbreak of trichinosis, totaling 24 cases, due to the ingestion of the meat of both black and brown bear. All cases were confirmed serologically and epidemiologically, and included 18 clinical and 6 subclinical infections. A report of these 2 outbreaks, with an evaluation of serodiagnosis and a review of the Arctic ecology of Trichinella spiralis, has been published elsewhere.1 In the original epidemiologic investigation, an intracutaneous test using a standard commercial preparation§ was performed in 23 documented cases one to . . .

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