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DURING the last ten to fifteen years, diagnosis of Trichina infection in man (and partly also in swine) has been made easier by the adoption of different methods, based on the immunological response of the organism to the parasite. Particularly, the intradermal and the precipitin test with Trichina antigen, both first described by Bachman1,2, have been used in many modifications. Thus, I am employing for this purpose a clear Seitz filtrate prepared from Trichina larvæ that had been freed from their cysts by artificial digestion, dried, pulverized and then extracted in physiological saline in the ratio 1:100. Though both these tests are a great help in the diagnosis of trichinosis, they may also fail in very mild cases of this disease, and, on the other hand, unspecific reactions may be obtained in persons not suffering from it.
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ROTH, H. Serodiagnosis of Trichinosis by Microscopical Testing with Living Trichina Larvæ. Nature 155, 758–759 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155758a0
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