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Historical Introduction

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Trichinella and Trichinosis

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On a farm in Germany, Christmas 1859 meant the usual preparation of festival meats, but for a young servant woman who prepared them, the season did not bring the usual festivity. She fell ill, suffering not only from fatigue, dizziness, and fever, but also from excruciating pain in her muscles. When the new year of 1860 was barely two weeks old, she was brought to the hospital in Dresden. The diagnosis was typhoid fever, or typhus abdominalis.

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Campbell, W.C. (1983). Historical Introduction. In: Campbell, W.C. (eds) Trichinella and Trichinosis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3578-8_1

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