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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 28.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2008 Jan 1;78(1):40–4.

Table 1. Characteristics of 138 outpatients suspected with trichinellosis in Oudamxay, June 2005.

Characteristics N = 138 (%)
Sex ratio (F/M) 1.1
Age (years) (mean and 95% confidence interval) 30.4 (28-33)
Number of patients <15 years of age 17 (12.3)
Patients with
 Myalgia 125 (90.5)
 Fever 65 (47.1)
 Facial edema 71 (51.4)
 Diarrhea 33 (23.9)
 Abdominal pain 28 (20.2)
 Retro-orbital pain 14 (10.1)
 Photophobia 4 (2.8)
Mean peripheral blood eosinophilia* 18.9 (17-21)
Patients with hypereosinophilia > 1,000/mmt† 99 (77.3)
Positive Trichinella ELISA (N = 133) 90 (67.6)
Positive Trichinella Western blot (N = 16) 13 (81.3)
*

N = 128, percent of white blood cell count, 95% confidence interval.

†

N = 128. Forty-two of 123 (35.7%) of outpatients had received albendazole treatment of a mean (95% confidence interval) duration of 8.0 days (6.7-9.2 days) before the investigation.