High occurrence of various clostridium difficile PCR ribotypes in pigs arriving at the slaughterhouse

Veterinary Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 179-181

  Hopman, N E M ^a   Oorburg, D ^b   Sanders, I ^c   Kuijper, E J ^c   Lipman, L J A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Vion Food Nederland   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clostridium difficile; Food borne; Pig; Porcine; Pork; Slaughterhouse

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; FECES ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; SWINE; TOXIN A GENE; TOXIN B GENE;

ABATTOIRS; ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FECES; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOTYPING; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

ANIMALIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 84856062130     PISSN: 01652176     EISSN: 18755941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01652176.2011.649370     Document Type: Article

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