TY - JOUR AU - Rodriguez-Palacios, Alexander AU - Staempfli, Henry R. AU - Duffield, Todd AU - Weese, J. Scott T1 - Clostridium difficile in Retail Ground Meat, Canada T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 3 SP - 485 SN - 1080-6059 AB - 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. KW - Clostridium difficile KW - bovine KW - zoonosis KW - ribotyping KW - humans KW - meat KW - beef KW - toxinotype III 014/077/027/NAP1 KW - dispatch KW - Canada DO - 10.3201/eid1303.060988 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/3/06-0988_article ER - End of Reference