Diagnosis

DIAGNOSIS

  • Based on the clinical signs.
  • During meat inspection, the encysted larvae seen as a white spot can be visible to naked eye.
  • For routine examination in meat industry small piece of muscle pressed between the slide, then viewed under trichinoscope.
  • Digest the muscle piece in acid pepsin then put in the Baermann's apparatus for larval separation.
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