RT Journal
T1 CUrrent comment
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD March 18
VO 112
IS 11
SP 1074
OP 1074
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800110054015
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800110054015
AB TRICHINOSIS IN THE UNITED STATES 
    The recent evidence from necropsies that 36 per cent of the inhabitants of Cleveland have trichinosis must not be interpreted as proof that Cleveland is the most highly infested area in the United States. It suggests rather that the routine diagnostic methods employed by earlier investigators were fallacious. Routine examinations of the diaphragms of adult cadavers by the Baermann digestion method led previous investigators to the conclusion that approximately 13.67 per cent of all persons in or around Washington, D. C., are infested with trichinae, 17.5 per cent in Minneapolis and Rochester, N. Y., 24 per cent in San Francisco and 27.6 per cent in Boston. Hall and Collins,1 however, showed that the routine Baermann technic failed to detect about 29.3 per cent of the positive cases. Evans2 of the Institute of Pathology, Cleveland, therefore supplemented this routine diagnostic method by application of