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Culturing and Maintaining Clostridium difficile in an Anaerobic Environment
Published on: September 14, 2013
Contamination of home-grown and retail vegetables with Clostridioidesdifficile
Anissa D Scholtzek1, Janine Heise1, Pascal Witt1
1German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Department Biological Safety, Max-Dohrn-Str. 8-10, 10589, Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
The opportunistic intestinal pathogen Clostridioides difficile is the number one cause of nosocomial diarrhea in humans. In this study, C. difficile was isolated from 26.7% of potatoes and 1.9% of salads from German retail. The majority of strains possessed toxinogenic PCR-ribotypes that are associated with human clinical cases pointing towards a potential risk to human health.
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