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The Hidden Burden of Trichinellosis in Vietnam: A Postoutbreak Epidemiological Study
A cross-sectional study was conducted in Muong Lat town (Thanh Hoa province, North Vietnam), following the confirmed diagnosis of trichinellosis in six patients from that town who had eaten hunted wild boar meat during the Vietnamese lunar year celebration. All inhabitants who declared to have eaten...
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2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3838854/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24307988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/149890 |
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author | Vu Thi, Nga Trung, Dung Do Litzroth, Amber Praet, Nicolas Nguyen Thu, Huong Nguyen Thu, Hien Nguyen Manh, Hung Dorny, Pierre |
author_facet | Vu Thi, Nga Trung, Dung Do Litzroth, Amber Praet, Nicolas Nguyen Thu, Huong Nguyen Thu, Hien Nguyen Manh, Hung Dorny, Pierre |
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description | A cross-sectional study was conducted in Muong Lat town (Thanh Hoa province, North Vietnam), following the confirmed diagnosis of trichinellosis in six patients from that town who had eaten hunted wild boar meat during the Vietnamese lunar year celebration. All inhabitants who declared to have eaten undercooked or raw wild boar meat at the celebration and showed at least one clinical symptom compatible with trichinellosis were included in the study and blood sampled. Anti-Trichinella IgG were determined by ELISA and Western Blot. Seropositive persons were given appropriate albendazole treatment and were followed up. A total of 100 inhabitants met the inclusion criteria. Among these, 30 (30%) had antibodies to Trichinella. Serologically confirmed cases had fever (90.0%), myalgia (86.7%), facial oedema (63.3%), diarrhoea (53.3%), and pain of the masseter muscles (43.3%). Eosinophilia was detected in 83.3% of these individuals. Clinical symptoms resolved in all patients during albendazole treatment. The results suggest that only a proportion of the trichinellosis cases had sought health care during the outbreak. There is a need to implement surveillance and better diagnosis for trichinellosis and to set up educational programs to prevent infection in North Vietnam. |
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spelling | pubmed-38388542013-12-04 The Hidden Burden of Trichinellosis in Vietnam: A Postoutbreak Epidemiological Study Vu Thi, Nga Trung, Dung Do Litzroth, Amber Praet, Nicolas Nguyen Thu, Huong Nguyen Thu, Hien Nguyen Manh, Hung Dorny, Pierre Biomed Res Int Research Article A cross-sectional study was conducted in Muong Lat town (Thanh Hoa province, North Vietnam), following the confirmed diagnosis of trichinellosis in six patients from that town who had eaten hunted wild boar meat during the Vietnamese lunar year celebration. All inhabitants who declared to have eaten undercooked or raw wild boar meat at the celebration and showed at least one clinical symptom compatible with trichinellosis were included in the study and blood sampled. Anti-Trichinella IgG were determined by ELISA and Western Blot. Seropositive persons were given appropriate albendazole treatment and were followed up. A total of 100 inhabitants met the inclusion criteria. Among these, 30 (30%) had antibodies to Trichinella. Serologically confirmed cases had fever (90.0%), myalgia (86.7%), facial oedema (63.3%), diarrhoea (53.3%), and pain of the masseter muscles (43.3%). Eosinophilia was detected in 83.3% of these individuals. Clinical symptoms resolved in all patients during albendazole treatment. The results suggest that only a proportion of the trichinellosis cases had sought health care during the outbreak. There is a need to implement surveillance and better diagnosis for trichinellosis and to set up educational programs to prevent infection in North Vietnam. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3838854/ /pubmed/24307988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/149890 Text en Copyright © 2013 Nga Vu Thi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Vu Thi, Nga Trung, Dung Do Litzroth, Amber Praet, Nicolas Nguyen Thu, Huong Nguyen Thu, Hien Nguyen Manh, Hung Dorny, Pierre The Hidden Burden of Trichinellosis in Vietnam: A Postoutbreak Epidemiological Study |
title | The Hidden Burden of Trichinellosis in Vietnam: A Postoutbreak Epidemiological Study |
title_full | The Hidden Burden of Trichinellosis in Vietnam: A Postoutbreak Epidemiological Study |
title_fullStr | The Hidden Burden of Trichinellosis in Vietnam: A Postoutbreak Epidemiological Study |
title_full_unstemmed | The Hidden Burden of Trichinellosis in Vietnam: A Postoutbreak Epidemiological Study |
title_short | The Hidden Burden of Trichinellosis in Vietnam: A Postoutbreak Epidemiological Study |
title_sort | hidden burden of trichinellosis in vietnam: a postoutbreak epidemiological study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3838854/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24307988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/149890 |
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