Contamination of ready-to-eat raw vegetables with Clostridium difficile in France

Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2013, Pages 1435-1438

  Eckert, Catherine ^a   Burghoffer, Béatrice ^a   Barbut, Frédéric ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FRANCE; LETTUCE; NONHUMAN; PEA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAW FOOD; SPROUT; VEGETABLE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FRANCE; LETTUCE; PEAS; RIBOTYPING; SPORES, BACTERIAL; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84881575203     PISSN: 00222615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.056358-0     Document Type: Article

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