In 2006, the Thailand Ministry of Public Health studied 28 patients from a village in northern Thailand. All had myalgia, edema, fever, and gastrointestinal symptoms; most had eaten wild boar. A muscle biopsy specimen from a patient showed nonencapsulated larvae with a cytochrome oxidase I gene sequence of Trichinella papuae.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2634638 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1412.080800 | DOI Listing |
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