Trichinella britovi in Domestic Pig – a Case Report 英文参考文献.docVIP

Acta vet. scand. 2002, 43,131-134. Brief Communication Trichinella britovi in Domestic Pig – a Case Report By T. J?rvis1, I. Miller1 and E. Pozio2 1Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Estonian Agricultural University, and 2Laboratory of Parasitology, Instituto Superiore di Sanita, Italy. Trichinellosis is a widespread parasitic disease caused by different genotypes of Trichinella. It is common in animals and can spread from its reservoir in wild animals to synanthropic ani- mals, domestic animals and people. Different transmission patterns have been documented (Campbell 1988). They range from those in which humans do not play any role to those in which improper human behaviour is the only cause of transmission (Pozio 1998, Casulli et al. 2001). The infection pressure of the parasite biomass present in sylvatic animals and human malpractice in animal husbandry together can easily favour the transmission of Trichinella from the wild to the domestic habitat (Pozio 2001). The growing importance of sylvatic species in the persistence and re-emergence of trichinellosis in many regions was emphasized at the 10th International Conference on Tri- chinellosis (Dupouy-Camet et al. 2001). Few cases of ?nding of Trichinella britovi in domes- tic pigs are known (Serrano et al. 1998). This study deals with a case of pig trichinellosis in Estonia due to Trichinella britovi and makes an attempt to elucidate the transmission pat- terns in the actual case. At the end of 1994 routine meat inspection di- agnosed trichinellosis in 3 hogs of 8-15 months of age from the L?pe co-operative on the island of Hiiumaa. At the beginning of 1995 trichinel- losis was diagnosed in one sow of the age of one year and 8 months on the same farm. Muscle samples from 2 of these 4 pigs (pig 1- 9-month-old sow and pig 2-20-month-old sow) were submitted for thorough investigation at the department of parasitology