The Role of Rats and Mice in the Transmission of the Porkworm, Trichinella spiralis (Owens, 1835) Raillett, 1895

1 October 1960

journal article
research article
Published by JSTOR in Journal of Parasitology

Vol. 46 (5) , 589-597
https://doi.org/10.2307/3274942

Abstract

Feeding trichina-free rats, mice, and pigs with feces resulting from rats and mice which had eaten 1 trichinous meal and 26-30 days later, a 2d meal indicates that the transmission of Trichinella spiralis can occur by this method. Feces from the 2d meal, if kept moist, is the most dangerous source of transmission. Cysts and sheathed larvae were found to be the infective agents in the feces. The transmission of T. spiralis by means of contaminated feces as contrasted to infective meat should be considered a short term source.

Keywords

TRICHINOSIS/TRANSMISSION

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Incidence of Trichiniasis in Swine, Pork Products, and Wildlife in Iowa
American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1956
AN OUTBREAK OF TRICHINIASIS IN CENTRAL OHIO AND THE USE OF THE BACHMAN INTRADERMAL SKIN
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1937