High Clostridium difficile contamination rates of domestic and imported potatoes compared to some other vegetables in Slovenia

V Tkalec, S Janezic, B Skok, T Simonic, S Mesaric… - Food …, 2019 - Elsevier
Clostridium difficile, recently reclassified to Clostridioides difficile, is among most important
causes of intestinal infections in humans. Zoonotic potential and foodborne transmissions …

[HTML][HTML] Clostridioides difficile in national food surveillance, Slovenia, 2015 to 2017

V Tkalec, U Jamnikar-Ciglenecki, M Rupnik… - …, 2020 - eurosurveillance.org
Background Clostridioides difficile is an important human and animal intestinal pathogen.
Because of increasing indications of an association between C. difficile and food, in 2015 …

High prevalence of Clostridium difficile on retail root vegetables, Western Australia

SC Lim, NF Foster, B Elliott… - Journal of applied …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Aims The incidence of community‐associated Clostridium difficile infection (CA‐CDI) in
Australia has increased since mid‐2011. With reports of clinically important C. difficile strains …

Contamination of ready-to-eat raw vegetables with Clostridium difficile in France

C Eckert, B Burghoffer, F Barbut - Journal of medical …, 2013 - microbiologyresearch.org
The presence of Clostridium difficile in food like shellfish, vegetables and meat has been
reported in several publications during the past few years. The objective of this study was to …

[HTML][HTML] Prevalence and phylogenetic relationship of Clostridioides difficile strains in fresh poultry meat samples processed in different cutting plants

J Heise, P Witt, C Maneck… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Clostridioides difficile is one of the most frequent causes of nosocomial infections in humans
leading to (antibiotic-associated) diarrhea and severe pseudomembranous colitis. With an …

[HTML][HTML] Clostridioides difficile positivity rate and PCR ribotype distribution on retail potatoes in 12 European countries, January to June 2018

V Tkalec, V Viprey, G Davis, S Janezic… - …, 2022 - eurosurveillance.org
Background While human-to-human transmission of Clostridioides difficile occurs often,
other infection sources, including food, animals and environment, are under investigation …

A review of Clostridioides [Clostridium] difficile occurrence through the food chain

C Candel-Pérez, G Ros-Berruezo, C Martínez-Graciá - Food microbiology, 2019 - Elsevier
The epidemiology and transmission of Clostridioides difficile, particularly for community-
associated infections, are not completely understood. Although there have been no …

Clostridium difficile in vegetables, Canada

DS Metcalf, MC Costa, WMV Dew… - Letters in applied …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background: Clostridium difficile is an important gastrointestinal pathogen of humans and
animals. It has been isolated from various foods, including meat and ready‐to‐eat salads …

Clostridium difficile: its potential as a source of foodborne disease

M Rupnik, JG Songer - Advances in food and nutrition research, 2010 - Elsevier
Clostridium difficile has been recognized as an important human pathogen for several
decades, but its importance as an agent of animal disease was established only recently …

[HTML][HTML] Clostridium difficile in ready-to-eat foods in Isfahan and Shahrekord, Iran

E Rahimi, ZS Afzali, ZT Baghbadorani - Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical …, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective: To determine the prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of Clostridium difficile
(C. difficile) isolated from ready-to-eat foods of Iran. Methods: From January to August 2013 …