Freeze-resistant Trichinella (Trichinella nativa) Established on the Scandinavian Peninsula |
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| Authors: | Kjell Handeland Trond Slettbakk Oddvar Helle |
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| Affiliation: | 115.State Veterinary Laboratory for Northern Norway, P.O. Box 652, N-9401 Harstad, Norway ;215.Department of Pharmacology, Microbiology and Food Hygiene, Section of Parasitology, Norwegian College of Veterinary Medicine, Oslo, Norway |
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| Abstract: | Until the 1970’s, Trichinella spiralis (Owen 1835) was considered the only species within the genus Trichinella. Then T. pseudospiralis (Garkavi 1972) was classified as a separate species on the basis of morphological and biological features. The remaining morphologically homogenous “T. spiralis-group” has been split into 4 different species (or subspecies) on the basis of their biological and biochemical characteristics; T. nativa (Britov & Boev 1972), T. nelsoni (Britov & Boev 1972), T. spiralis sensu stricto and T. britovi (Pozio et al. 1992). |
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