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<i>Clostridium difficile</i>in Retail Ground Meat, Canada

Alexander Rodriguez‐Palacios, Henry R. Staempfli, T.F. Duffield, J. Scott Weese

Emerging infectious diseases · 2007 · 257 citations · 12 references

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Clostridium difficile was isolated from 12 (20%) of 60 retail ground meat samples purchased over a 10-month period in 2005 in Canada. Eleven isolates were toxigenic, and 8 (67%) were classified as toxinotype III. The human health implications of this finding are unclear, but with the virulence of toxinotype III strains further studies are required.

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