A Clinical and Epidemiological Prospective Study of Human Trichinosis of Patients Hospitalized during 2004–2010 at Infectious Diseases Hospital of Brasov

Abstract

A major parasitic zoonosis, trichinosis, is characterized by a variable clinical evolution whose manifestations of humans can go from inapparent forms to severe clinical forms. Clinical manifestations such as high fever, accompanied by a headache that may persist for several days is something unusual for helminthiasis; diffuse or generalized myalgia, common to the eye, appears during movement and palpation and is absent at rest; edema, orbital, and facial frequently, as myalgia, can occur simultaneously with fever; they grow quickly during the 1 to 5 days and are maintained for 1-2 weeks in benign and moderate forms. In severe forms, disease larvae can invade the brain, the lungs, and the kidneys, with the appearance of clinical signs of suffering from these organs.