Clostridium difficile in Retail Ground Meat, Canada

Clostridium difficile was isolated from 12 (20%) of 60 retail ground meat samples purchased over a 10-month period in 2005 in Canada. Eleven isolates were toxigenic, and 8 (67%) were classified as toxinotype III. The human health implications of this finding are unclear, but with the virulence of to...

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Autores principales: Rodriguez-Palacios, Alexander, Staempfli, Henry R., Duffield, Todd, Weese, J. Scott
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2725909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17552108
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1303.060988
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author Rodriguez-Palacios, Alexander
Staempfli, Henry R.
Duffield, Todd
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description Clostridium difficile was isolated from 12 (20%) of 60 retail ground meat samples purchased over a 10-month period in 2005 in Canada. Eleven isolates were toxigenic, and 8 (67%) were classified as toxinotype III. The human health implications of this finding are unclear, but with the virulence of toxinotype III strains further studies are required.
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spelling pubmed-27259092009-09-10 Clostridium difficile in Retail Ground Meat, Canada Rodriguez-Palacios, Alexander Staempfli, Henry R. Duffield, Todd Weese, J. Scott Emerg Infect Dis Dispatch Clostridium difficile was isolated from 12 (20%) of 60 retail ground meat samples purchased over a 10-month period in 2005 in Canada. Eleven isolates were toxigenic, and 8 (67%) were classified as toxinotype III. The human health implications of this finding are unclear, but with the virulence of toxinotype III strains further studies are required. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2007-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2725909/ /pubmed/17552108 http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1303.060988 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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Rodriguez-Palacios, Alexander
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Clostridium difficile in Retail Ground Meat, Canada
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title_full_unstemmed Clostridium difficile in Retail Ground Meat, Canada
title_short Clostridium difficile in Retail Ground Meat, Canada
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2725909/
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