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Epidemiology of Trichinella infection in wild boar from Spain and its impact on human health during the period 2006–2019

Trichinellosis is a notifiable zoonotic disease caused by parasitic nematode larvae belonging to the genus Trichinella. Domestic pig and wild boar are important hosts within the natural cycle of T. spiralis, the last one being an animal whose populations have experienced an important growth. Therefo...

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Autores principales: Moral, Sheila Moral, Azorit, Concepción, López-Montoya, Antonio Jesús, Pérez, Jesús M.
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Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9385551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35991947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2022.07.008
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author Moral, Sheila Moral
Azorit, Concepción
López-Montoya, Antonio Jesús
Pérez, Jesús M.
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description Trichinellosis is a notifiable zoonotic disease caused by parasitic nematode larvae belonging to the genus Trichinella. Domestic pig and wild boar are important hosts within the natural cycle of T. spiralis, the last one being an animal whose populations have experienced an important growth. Therefore, this paper studies the prevalence of Trichinella infection in wild boar in Spain, as well as its relation with hunting and its impact on public health during the period 2006–2019. For this purpose, different sources of information were consulted and analyzed depending on the autonomous communities of Spain and years. During the fourteen years of study, the number of wild boars hunted and the number of cases of Trichinella infection in them increased (from 172 cases in 2006 to 421 in 2019), although prevalence values remained low as the number of animals analyzed also increased. On the other hand, trichinellosis in humans tended to decrease (from a peak of 107 cases in 2007 to 11 cases in 2019). Nevertheless, the numbers of both wild boars and humans infected with Trichinella in Spain are among the highest in Europe, and this emphasizes the importance of food safety, sanitary controls of game meat and citizen awareness campaigns, which prevent the spread of Trichinella through the human population.
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spelling pubmed-93855512022-08-19 Epidemiology of Trichinella infection in wild boar from Spain and its impact on human health during the period 2006–2019 Moral, Sheila Moral Azorit, Concepción López-Montoya, Antonio Jesús Pérez, Jesús M. Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl Article Trichinellosis is a notifiable zoonotic disease caused by parasitic nematode larvae belonging to the genus Trichinella. Domestic pig and wild boar are important hosts within the natural cycle of T. spiralis, the last one being an animal whose populations have experienced an important growth. Therefore, this paper studies the prevalence of Trichinella infection in wild boar in Spain, as well as its relation with hunting and its impact on public health during the period 2006–2019. For this purpose, different sources of information were consulted and analyzed depending on the autonomous communities of Spain and years. During the fourteen years of study, the number of wild boars hunted and the number of cases of Trichinella infection in them increased (from 172 cases in 2006 to 421 in 2019), although prevalence values remained low as the number of animals analyzed also increased. On the other hand, trichinellosis in humans tended to decrease (from a peak of 107 cases in 2007 to 11 cases in 2019). Nevertheless, the numbers of both wild boars and humans infected with Trichinella in Spain are among the highest in Europe, and this emphasizes the importance of food safety, sanitary controls of game meat and citizen awareness campaigns, which prevent the spread of Trichinella through the human population. Elsevier 2022-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9385551/ /pubmed/35991947 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2022.07.008 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Epidemiology of Trichinella infection in wild boar from Spain and its impact on human health during the period 2006–2019
title Epidemiology of Trichinella infection in wild boar from Spain and its impact on human health during the period 2006–2019
title_full Epidemiology of Trichinella infection in wild boar from Spain and its impact on human health during the period 2006–2019
title_fullStr Epidemiology of Trichinella infection in wild boar from Spain and its impact on human health during the period 2006–2019
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiology of Trichinella infection in wild boar from Spain and its impact on human health during the period 2006–2019
title_short Epidemiology of Trichinella infection in wild boar from Spain and its impact on human health during the period 2006–2019
title_sort epidemiology of trichinella infection in wild boar from spain and its impact on human health during the period 2006–2019
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9385551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35991947
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2022.07.008
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