Trichinosis in the Canadian Arctic: Report of Five Outbreaks and a New Clinical Syndrome
Trichinosis is a serious but understudied medical problem in the Arctic. Forty-nine consecutive cases in the Inuit population of northeastern Canada are described. Most developed the disease after eating raw walrus, and the clinical presentation of most of these cases differed from previously report...
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fthighwire:oai:open-archive.highwire.org:jinfdis:160/3/513 2023-05-15T14:47:01+02:00 Trichinosis in the Canadian Arctic: Report of Five Outbreaks and a New Clinical Syndrome MacLean, J. Dick Viallet, Jean Law, Cliff Staudt, Miriam 1989-09-01 00:00:00.0 text/html http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/160/3/513 https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/160.3.513 en eng Oxford University Press http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/160/3/513 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/160.3.513 Copyright (C) 1989, Infectious Diseases Society of America Major Articles TEXT 1989 fthighwire https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/160.3.513 2013-05-28T04:47:49Z Trichinosis is a serious but understudied medical problem in the Arctic. Forty-nine consecutive cases in the Inuit population of northeastern Canada are described. Most developed the disease after eating raw walrus, and the clinical presentation of most of these cases differed from previously reported descriptions of classic trichinosis due to Trichinella spiralis . Unlike the classic syndrome of a brief period of diarrhea followed by fever, myalgia, muscle weakness, and edema, the most common presentation in these cases was a prolonged diarrhea without fever and with brief muscle symptoms. High peripheral eosinophilia, high Trichinella antibody serotiters, and little direct or indirect evidence of muscle invasion in many of those with the chronic diarrheal presentation suggest a new clinical syndrome due to a different species of Trichinella seen in the Arctic or to reinfection with Trichinella . Text Arctic inuit walrus* HighWire Press (Stanford University) Arctic Canada Journal of Infectious Diseases 160 3 513 520 |
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Trichinosis is a serious but understudied medical problem in the Arctic. Forty-nine consecutive cases in the Inuit population of northeastern Canada are described. Most developed the disease after eating raw walrus, and the clinical presentation of most of these cases differed from previously reported descriptions of classic trichinosis due to Trichinella spiralis . Unlike the classic syndrome of a brief period of diarrhea followed by fever, myalgia, muscle weakness, and edema, the most common presentation in these cases was a prolonged diarrhea without fever and with brief muscle symptoms. High peripheral eosinophilia, high Trichinella antibody serotiters, and little direct or indirect evidence of muscle invasion in many of those with the chronic diarrheal presentation suggest a new clinical syndrome due to a different species of Trichinella seen in the Arctic or to reinfection with Trichinella . |
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Trichinosis in the Canadian Arctic: Report of Five Outbreaks and a New Clinical Syndrome |
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Trichinosis in the Canadian Arctic: Report of Five Outbreaks and a New Clinical Syndrome |
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Trichinosis in the Canadian Arctic: Report of Five Outbreaks and a New Clinical Syndrome |
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Trichinosis in the Canadian Arctic: Report of Five Outbreaks and a New Clinical Syndrome |
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Trichinosis in the Canadian Arctic: Report of Five Outbreaks and a New Clinical Syndrome |
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trichinosis in the canadian arctic: report of five outbreaks and a new clinical syndrome |
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