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Distribution of Trichinella spiralis in the Diaphragm of Experimentally Infected Swine.
J Food Prot
September 1988
Meat Science Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Building 201, BARC-East, Beltsville, Maryland 20705 and Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Division of Biometrics, Washington, D.C.
The objectives of this study were to determine whether the distribution of Trichinella spiralis larvae within the diaphragm of infected swine was the same throughout five anatomically identifiable portions, and to assess the tenability of the Poisson model to describe the probability of detecting larvae in samples of digested tissue. To examine differences in levels of infection among the regions of the diaphragm, sixteen 2-month-old and fourteen 6-month-old swine were infected with approximately 300 T. spiralis larvae per animal.
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