Περίληψη:
Trichinellosis which constitutes a public health problem in many
countries seems to be of no importance on both pig industry and public
health in Greece, where in spite of a law requiring mandatory use of
trichinoscopy during meat inspection, muscle larvae have not been found
in slaughtered pigs since 1957 in Thessaloniki and 1967 in Athens. Since
its first recovery in 1946 and up to 1952, human trichinellosis has been
found or suspected in 22 persons in the area of Athens and Thessaloniki.
Moreover, in 1968, T. spiralis larvae were found incidentally in a human
with laryngeal tumor and in 1971, living larvae were postmortem
recovered in the diaphragm of a 70-year-old man. The average incidence
of infection in pigs at that time was 0.02-2.2%. Since then, no other
clinical case had been reported up to 1982-1984 when 15 people were
found to harbor the parasite and fourteen of them were part of an
outbreak which occurred in a small village in Northern Greece. Moreover,
1.07% of the pig serum samples which came from the some area, showed
the presence of specific antibodies. Because of the above data, it is
generally accepted that in Greece T. spiralis is only rarely spread in
man.
Συγγραφείς:
Sotiraki, ST
Athanasiou, LV
Himonas, CA
Kontos, VJ and
Kyriopoulos, I
