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. 2007 Feb 13;176(4):449-51.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.061530.

Trichinellosis from consumption of wild game meat

Lorraine McIntyre  1 , Sue L Pollock, Murray Fyfe, Alvin Gajadhar, Judy Isaac-Renton, Joe Fung, Muhammad Morshed
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Trichinellosis from consumption of wild game meat

Lorraine McIntyre et al. CMAJ. .
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Fig. 1: Rash from Trichinella nativa infection in Saskatchewan outbreak. Photo courtesy of Schellenberg and colleagues.
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Fig. 2: Four encapsulated Trichinella larvae in muscle tissue of bear leg (original magnification × 100).
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