A trichinellosis outbreak in Borikhamxay Province, Lao PDR (original) (raw)
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aInstitut de la Francophonie pour la Médecine Tropicale, Vientiane, Lao PDR
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aInstitut de la Francophonie pour la Médecine Tropicale, Vientiane, Lao PDR
⁎Corresponding author. Present address: Swiss Tropical Institute, Postfach, 4002 Basel, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 61 284 82 14; fax: +41 61 284 81 05. E-mail address: [email protected] (P. Odermatt).
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aInstitut de la Francophonie pour la Médecine Tropicale, Vientiane, Lao PDR
bNational Center for Epidemiology and Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao PDR
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aInstitut de la Francophonie pour la Médecine Tropicale, Vientiane, Lao PDR
cMahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR
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dLaboratoire de Parasitologie–Mycologie, Centre National de Référence des Trichinella, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France
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eWellcome Trust—Mahosot Hospital—Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Collaboration, Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane, Lao PDR
fCentre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Received:
22 October 2005
Revision received:
13 January 2006
Accepted:
16 January 2006
Published:
01 December 2006
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Somphou Sayasone, Peter Odermatt, Phengta Vongphrachanh, Valy Keoluangkot, Jean Dupouy-Camet, Paul N. Newton, Michel Strobel, A trichinellosis outbreak in Borikhamxay Province, Lao PDR, Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 100, Issue 12, December 2006, Pages 1126–1129, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trstmh.2006.01.010
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Summary
Trichinellosis is documented in Southeast Asia, particularly in Thailand and China. Data from Lao PDR are lacking. An outbreak investigation was conducted in Borikhamxay Province after three patients with suspected trichinellosis consulted the Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane. In total, 22 trichinellosis cases were identified; 21 cases could be confirmed by Western blot. High fever (100%), muscle pain (91%), upper eyelid oedema (86%) and diarrhoea (59%) were observed. Among the 22 patients, 86% had consumed pork meat from the same source. This is the first report of an outbreak investigation in Lao PDR since 1975. It shows that the incidence of trichinellosis is much higher than currently thought.
© Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2006
Topic:
- western blotting
- diarrhea
- fever
- asia, southeastern
- china
- disease outbreaks
- meat
- thailand
- trichinosis
- myalgia
- eyelid edema
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