ArticleWiener klinische Wochenschrift2009
Clostridium difficile: a new zoonotic agent?
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- Global prevalence of Clostridioides difficile in 17,148 food samples from 2009 to 2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Global and Historical Distribution ofFrontiers in medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Antimicrobial resistance ofOne health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Assessing the Risk of SpreadingAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Prevalence and Antibiotic Resistance of Clostridioides (Iranian journal of public health · 2023Review
- The Environment, Farm Animals and Foods as Sources ofFoods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Examining the Extent of Contamination, Antibiotic Resistance, and Genetic Diversity ofBioMed research international · 2023Article
- Characterisation and Antibiotic Susceptibility Profile ofJournal of veterinary research · 2020Article
- Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2020Article
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- Impact of early-life events on the susceptibility to Clostridium difficile colonisation and infection in the offspring of the pig.Gut microbes · 2019Article
- Epidemiological and genomic characterization of community-acquired Clostridium difficile infections.BMC infectious diseases · 2018Article
- A Comparative Study on the Faecal Bacterial Community and Potential Zoonotic Bacteria of Muskoxen (Microorganisms · 2018Article
- Identification of risk factors influencing Clostridium difficile prevalence in middle-size dairy farms.Veterinary research · 2016Article
- Clostridium difficile ribotypes in Austria: a multicenter, hospital-based survey.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2015Article
- Diversity and Evolution in the Genome of Clostridium difficile.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2015Review
- Three-week summer period prevalence of Clostridium difficile in farm animals in a temperate region of the United States (Ohio).The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne · 2014Article
- Humans and cattle: a review of bovine zoonoses.Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2014Review
- Community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection: an increasing public health threat.Infection and drug resistance · 2014Review
- Prevalence and molecular characterization of Clostridium difficile isolated from feedlot beef cattle upon arrival and mid-feeding period.BMC veterinary research · 2012Article
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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Clostridium difficile is mainly considered a nosocomial pathogen associated with diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis in hospitalized patients. Austrian hospitals reported 2761 cases of C. difficile infection (including 277 lethal outcomes) in 2007, compared with 777 cases (including 54 lethal outcomes) in 2003. The occurrence of community-acquired C. difficile infection is also increasingly reported. Recent studies have shown the occurrence of C. difficile in food and animals. The aim of the present study was to determine the occurrence of C. difficile in food and animals in Austria. Between March and July 2008, gut or fecal samples from 67 cows, 61 pigs and 59 broiler chickens were collected at Austrian abattoirs. Between February and April 2008 meat samples (51 beef [25 ground], 27 pork [17 ground] and 6 samples of chicken meat) were purchased at retail outlets. Of the 187 samples tested, eight yielded C. difficile: in cows 3/67 samples (4.5%) were positive, in pigs 2/61 (3.3%), in broiler chickens 3/59 (5%). Six of the eight isolates yielded toxigenic C. difficile (toxins A and B): 2/67 (3%) cow samples, 2/61 (3.3%) pig samples, 2/59 (3.4%) chicken samples. Genes for the binary toxin were detected in one of the two pig isolates, a PCR ribotype 126 strain. None of the 84 meat samples yielded C. difficile. The results of this Austrian study suggest that animal reservoirs are possible sources, via food, of human C. difficile infection.
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