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Article: Trichinosis
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Trichinosis
What Is Trichinosis?
How Common Is Trichinosis?
How Do People Know They Have Trichinosis?
How Do Doctors Diagnose and Treat Trichinosis?
How Can Trichinosis Be Prevented?
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Trichinosis (trih-kih-NO-sis) is a parasitic infection that comes from eating raw or undercooked meat. It is caused by species of the roundworm
Trichinella
(trih-kih-NEH-luh).
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Nematodes
Roundworms
Trichinella
What Is Trichinosis?
Also called trichinellosis (trih-kih-neh-LO-sis), trichinosis can occur when people eat meat that is infected with the
larvae*
of
Trichinella
roundworms (also called nematodes, ...