Epidemiology of swine trichinellosis in Yugoslavia.

Intensive epidemiological and seroepidemiological studies of Trichinella spiralis infection in swine have been carried out in the borough of Kladovo, one of the four regions in Yugoslavia where trichinellosis is endemic. A high prevalence (4.7%) of trichinellosis was discovered in three neighboring parishes adjoining the bank of the river Danube. Both geographically and epidemiologically these three parishes constitute a very unique condition that is very vulnerable to T. spiralis infection. Studies of 7,409 swine showed that the ELISA test for the detection of specific antibodies to T. spiralis in swine was highly reliable.