Trichinella spp larvae in muscles of 18 species of terrestrial and marine mammals collected from Nunatsiavut, Nunavik, Nunavut and Northwest Territories in northern Canada, between 2006 and 2010

The data set includes sample identification, species, collection location (described using one or more of the following: name of a prominent geographic feature, nearest community, latitude and longitude), date of collection, date of testing, age, sex, sample type, sample weight, larvae recovered per g of sample, and Trichinella spp or genotype recovered. Laboratory protocols are described including recovery of larvae from muscle usng a pepsin-HCl muscle digestion procedure with a double separatory funnel step to collect larvae from the digestion mixture, identification using microscopy and PCR for confirmation and determination of genotype.