Magnetic Stirrer Method for the Detection of Trichinella Larvae in Muscle SamplesAnne Mayer-Scholl 1, Edoardo Pozio 2, Jennifer Gayda 1, Nora Thaben 1, Peter Bahn 1, Karsten Nöckler 1
1Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, 2Istituto Superiore di Sanità
The prevention of human trichinellosis in many countries worldwide is based on the laboratory examination of muscle samples from susceptible animals by methods of digestion, of which the magnetic stirrer method is considered the gold standard.