Trichinosis is a nematode parasitic disease of animals characterized by muscular pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, fever, oedema of face, urticarial skin eruptions and enteritis.
- Also known as trichinelliasis. Uncooked or raw pork products are the source of infection.
- Infective larvae released from meat and mature in intestine.
- It enters in intestinal mucosa and through blood stream it reaches in muscles (cardiac, skeletal).
- Characteristic Symptoms are Muscular pain and fever, Nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, Oedema of face, Urticarial skin eruptions and Paralysis.
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