Counterpoint: Is Clostridium difficile a food-borne disease?

Anaerobe

Volumn 21, Issue , 2013, Pages 62-63

  Marsh, Jane W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community associated Clostridium difficile; Retail foods

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD POISONING; FOOD PROCESSING; GENOTYPE; MEAT; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTILOCUS VARIABLE NUMBER TANDEM REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; FOOD CONTROL; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS;

EID: 84877131875     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: 10958274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2013.03.004     Document Type: Article

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