Clostridium difficile in retail meat products, USA, 2007

To determine the presence of Clostridium difficile, we sampled cooked and uncooked meat products sold in Tucson, Arizona. Forty-two percent contained toxigenic C. difficile strains (either ribotype 078/toxinotype V [73%] or 027/toxinotype III [NAP1 or NAP1-related; 27%]). These findings indicate tha...

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Published in:Emerging infectious diseases 2009-05, Vol.15 (5), p.819-821
Main Authors: Songer, J Glenn, Trinh, Hien T, Killgore, George E, Thompson, Angela D, McDonald, L Clifford, Limbago, Brandi M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Anti-Bacterial Agents - pharmacology
Anti-infective agents
Arizona
Cattle - microbiology
Causes of
Clostridium difficile
Clostridium difficile - classification
Clostridium difficile - drug effects
Clostridium difficile - genetics
Clostridium difficile - isolation & purification
Clostridium difficile and associated disease
Clostridium infections
Control
Dispatch
Distribution
Dosage and administration
Drug therapy
Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
enteric diseases
food animals
Food Contamination
Health aspects
Meat
Meat Products - microbiology
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Polymerase Chain Reaction
retail meats
Ribotyping
Swine - microbiology
Turkeys - microbiology
USA
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Summary:To determine the presence of Clostridium difficile, we sampled cooked and uncooked meat products sold in Tucson, Arizona. Forty-two percent contained toxigenic C. difficile strains (either ribotype 078/toxinotype V [73%] or 027/toxinotype III [NAP1 or NAP1-related; 27%]). These findings indicate that food products may play a role in interspecies C. difficile transmission.
ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid1505.081071