New aspects of clinical pathology and electro-physiological muscle disturbances in patients with history of trichinellosis

Abstract

Clinical studies performed in 44 patients, one, three, four, six or seven years after they had experienced trichinellosis demonstrated the persistence of various general and motor ailments in 88.7 % of the patients. The persisting for many years antibodies against E/S antigen of Trichinella in 86.4 % of examined patients seem to reflect chronic stimulation by the larvae which, as shown by parasitological and histopathological tests, survived longer and underwent gradual destruction in muscles. Bio-electric disturbances in muscles were most frequently of a mixed type, with prevalence of a neural type record. These observations illustrate a disturbed function of motor neurones and of impulse transmission at the myoneural junction in patients chronically infected with Trichinella. © PRINCEPS Editions, Paris, 2001.