AUTHOR=Borhani Mehdi , Fathi Saeid , Harandi Majid Fasihi , Simsek Sami , Ahmed Haroon , Wu Xiaoxia , Liu Mingyuan 

TITLE=Trichinella infections in animals and humans of Iran and Turkey

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Medicine

VOLUME=10

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2023.1088507

DOI=10.3389/fmed.2023.1088507

ISSN=2296-858X

ABSTRACT=<p>Trichinellosis is considered as a cosmopolitan zoonosis caused by different species of the small nematodes of the genus <italic>Trichinella</italic>. The present study aimed to provide a broad review for exploring <italic>Trichinella</italic> sp. infection in humans and animals of Iran and Turkey. Additionally, we aimed to explore bases for trichinellosis prevention and control. Two reports of human trichinellosis following the consumption of meat of wild boar are available in the northern Iran. A large outbreak of trichinellosis and some other sporadic cases are reported mainly as a result of eating wild boar or pork meat from Turkey, where <italic>T. britovi</italic> is present. Field studies show that <italic>Trichinella</italic> sp. infections occur in wild carnivores of Iran, particularly the golden jackal (<italic>Canis aureus</italic>) as the most frequently infected species. <italic>T. britovi</italic> has been reported to be present elsewhere in Iran in wild mammals, where wild boar is the main source of <italic>Trichinella</italic> sp. infection. In Turkey, <italic>Trichinella</italic> spp. has been reported from animals including both domesticated and wild pigs and gray wolf (<italic>Canis lupus</italic>). However, current data on the distribution of <italic>Trichinella</italic> taxa are fragmentary in the Anatolian region.</p>