Tada K, Suzuki H, Sato Y, Morishima Y, Nagano I, Ishioka H, Gomi H. Outbreak of Trichinella T9 Infections Associated with Consumption of Bear Meat, Japan.
Emerg Infect Dis 2019;
24:1532-1535. [PMID:
30015609 PMCID:
PMC6056131 DOI:
10.3201/eid2408.172117]
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Abstract
An outbreak of trichinellosis occurred in Japan in December 2016. All case-patients had eaten undercooked bear meat, from which Trichinella larvae were subsequently isolated. DNA sequencing analysis of the mitochondrial genes cytochrome c-oxidase subunit 1 and internal transcribed spacer 2 confirmed that Trichinella T9 had caused the outbreak.
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