Clostridium difficile in food - innocent bystander or serious threat?

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-10

  Weese, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clostridium; Foodborne; Review; Zoonotic

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN A; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE TOXIN B;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; HUMAN; MEAT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW; RIBOTYPING; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

EID: 71849085180     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2009.03108.x     Document Type: Review

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