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Trichinella spiralis is capable of infecting all mammals. The disease it causes is referred to as trichinellosis. Some 10 million to 15 million people in North America are infected with T. spiralis.1 Its prevalence is also high in Europe and in Asia, and there have even been epidemics in Japan and China.2 The infection has been diagnosed in most parts of the world, with Puerto Rico and Australia among the exceptions.
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Despommier, D.D., Gwadz, R.W., Hotez, P.J. (1995). Trichinella spiralis(Railliet 1896). In: Parasitic Diseases. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2476-1_6
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