Clostridium difficile in Retail Ground Meat, Canada

Rodriguez-Palacios, Alexander; Staempfli, Henry R.; Duffield, Todd; Weese, J. Scott

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Clostridium difficile in Retail Ground Meat, Canada

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Mar 2007
By Rodriguez-Palacios, Alexander ; Staempfli, Henry R. ; Duffield, Todd ; ...

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Alternative Title:

Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:

Rodriguez-Palacios, Alexander ; Staempfli, Henry R. ; Duffield, Todd ; Weese, J. Scott
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.
Subjects:

Animals Bacterial Toxins Cattle Clostridium Infections Environmental Monitoring Food Microbiology Humans Meat Products Species Specificity
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 13(3):485-487.
Document Type:

Journal Article
Place as Subject:

Canada
Location:

North America
Volume:

13
Issue:

3
Collection(s):

Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:c851de9efdaf9f0e86bcc947b614017b9767dfed4d1c40db56d68b0a1bab9faa
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https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16493/cdc_16493_DS1.pdf
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