Trichinella infection

Moral, Sheila Moral, Concepci, Azorit, on, L, Antonio Jesús, opez-Montoya, P, Jesús M. & erez, 2022, Epidemiology of Trichinella infection in wild boar from Spain and its impact on human health during the period 2006 - 2019, International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 19, pp. 18-25 : 22

3.2. Cases of Trichinella infection in wild boar

As can be seen in Table 3, the number of wild boar samples analyzed has increased considerably in just ten years. This greater number of samples has been also paralleled by significant increase in the number of Trichinella cases in several autonomous communities, such as Catalonia, Andalusia, Castile-La Mancha and Extremadura. Even so, the prevalence values decreased in some regions such as Catalonia and Aragon ( Fig. 1 ). The increase in the number of cases of Trichinella infection in wild boar can be also observed at national level, just as Fig. 2 shows.

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Fig. 1. Prevalence of Trichinella infection in wild boar from several Spanish autonomous communities.

Fig. 2. Occurrence of Trichinella infection in wild boar in Spain from 2006 to 2019.