A Case of Trichinosis caused by eating a wild badger.
- Author:
Hyung Cheol LEE
1
;
Jee Soo KIM
;
Heung Young OH
;
Jee Hyun KIM
;
Hyung Gun KIM
;
Myung Seok LEE
;
Woo Joong KIM
;
Hyoun Tae KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Trichinosis;
Uncooked meat
- MeSH:
Animals;
Asia, Southeastern;
China;
Disease Outbreaks;
Eating*;
Edema;
Eosinophilia;
Europe;
Fever;
Humans;
Japan;
Korea;
Larva;
Liver;
Meat;
Mustelidae*;
Myalgia;
North America;
Prevalence;
Trichinella spiralis;
Trichinellosis*
- From:Korean Journal of Medicine
1999;56(1):134-138
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Trichinosis is a worldwide parasitic infection developed after the ingestion of uncooked meat containing viable larvae of the nematode Trichinella spiralis. Fever, myalgia, periorbital edema and eosinophilia are characteristic features and most infections are mild and asymptomatic, but a few cases have a severe clinical course due to cardiac or cerebral complications. This parasitic infection is spread in nature among a large number of carnivorous animals, human being an incidental host. While the highest prevalence is in North America and Europe, some outbreaks of trichinosis have been reported in the areas of Southeast Asia, China and Japan recently, but it has not been reported in Korea yet. We experienced a case of trichinosis with typical clinical features and laboratory findings of trichinosis after eating a raw liver and blood of wild badger which was poached in Chi-ri mountain.
