INCIDENCE OF TRICHINELLA INFECTIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO, 1950

26 May 1951

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 146 (4) , 331-334
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1951.03670040031006

Abstract

About 20 years ago interest in human trichinosis in the United States was stimulated by Queen's work,¹ in which he showed the incidence of infections, as measured by recovery of larvae from human diaphragms by peptic digestion, to be far higher than would be indicated by the reported diagnoses of clinical trichinosis. His study was followed by those of a succession of investigators who used similar techniques. Extensive studies of trichinous infections in men and in hogs were made, notably by Hall and Collins, and others working with Willard Wright at the National Institute of Health.² It was established that infections by Trichinella spiralis were quite common. Larvae were found in about 16 per cent of the human diaphragms collected in various parts of the United States. Wright, Jacobs and Walton³ concluded that there was no correlation between Trichinella infection and sex, civil or military status, past

Keywords

TRICHINOSIS

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

Studies on the Incidence of Trichiniasis in Mississippi 1
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 1948
Studies on Trichinosis: XV. Summary of the Findings of Trichinella spiralis in a Random Sampling and Other Samplings of the Population of the United States
Public Health Reports®, 1943