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Published on: March 5, 2014
A Clostridioides difficile surveillance study of Canadian retail meat samples from 2016-2018
Derek T Tan1, Michael R Mulvey1, George G Zhanel2
1University of Manitoba, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Abstract:
In this study, we isolated and molecularly characterized 10 (1.6%) C. difficile isolates from 644 commercially available raw meat samples. Molecular typing by PFGE and ribotyping revealed NAP and ribotypes commonly associated with human clinical cases, suggesting retail meat could be a possible source of transmission warranting further investigation.

