A possible route for foodborne transmission of clostridium difficile?

Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 177-182

  Lund, Barbara M ^a   Peck, Michael W ^a  

^a NORWICH RESEARCH PARK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FOOD; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COOKING; FOOD POISONING; HEAT TOLERANCE; HUMAN; MEAT; NONHUMAN; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; HEAT; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; COOKING; FOODBORNE DISEASES; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MEAT; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84924681068     PISSN: 15353141     EISSN: 15567125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/fpd.2014.1842     Document Type: Review

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