Trichinella nativa

Malone, Cody J., Oksanen, Antti, Mukaratirwa, Samson, Sharma, Rajnish & Jenkins, Emily, 2024, From wildlife to humans: The global distribution of Trichinella species and genotypes in wildlife and wildlife-associated human trichinellosis, International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 24, pp. 100934-100934 : 100934-

3.2.1. Trichinella nativa in Europe

The presence of T. nativa in Europe has been thoroughly surveilled throughout Europe. Trichinella nativa has been found in many terrestrial carnivore hosts in Europe as well as a grey seal ( Halichoerus grypus ) off the coast of Finland ( Table 7). Trichinella nativa is sympatric with T. britovi in northern, north-central, and eastern Europe ( Fig. 3 ). One human outbreak in France was genotyped as T. nativa which originated from consumption of harvested black bear meat from Quebec, Canada (Ancelle et al., 2005; Public Health Agency of Canada, 2006) ( Tables 8 and 11). The index cases were infected in Canada and then others were infected in France from the consumption of the illegally imported bear meat (Ancelle et al., 2005; Public Health Agency of Canada, 2006). As most human outbreaks of trichinellosis in Europe do not report Trichinella species, outbreaks with T. nativa have likely been underreported.

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Fig. 3. Global distribution of sylvatic Trichinella species and genotypes adapted from Pozio (2016); Gottstein et al. (2009).