Trichinella spiralis
From IDWiki
- Pork tapeworm
- Can complete its life cycle in a human, pig, boar, bear, walrus, fox, and other animals
- Life cycle involves ingestion of meat with cysts, which develop into adult worms, which release eggs, which invade through gut mucosa and migrate to muscle, where it becomes a muscle cyst
- Acquired in humans by ingestion of undercooked meat
- Can cause an eosinophilic myositis
- Treated by albendazole
