Clostridium Difficile in Retail Ground Meat, Canada

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2007 Jun 8

PMID 17552108

Citations 75

Authors

Alexander Rodriguez-Palacios

Henry R Staempfli

Todd Duffield

J Scott Weese

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Abstract

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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