Sukhdeo MVK 1991. The relationship between intestinal location and fecundity in adult
Trichinella spiralis. International Journal for Parasitology21: 855–858. Adult female worms
recovered from the jejunum of rats infected per os with 1000 larvae of Trichinella spiralis
were significantly more fecund (peak jejunal fecundity= 35.7±3.1 newborn larvae per
female) than females recovered from the terminal ileum (9.3±4.1 larvae per female) in the
same infections. The majority of the adult worms were established in those sections of the …