Infants and toddlers frequently carry toxigenic Clostridium difficile, usually with no harm to themselves, but can serve as a reservoir and spread the bacteria to adults in whom it can cause ...

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Dilek HEPERKAN, Antonio MORETTİ, Ceren D. DIKMEN, Antonio F. LOGRİECO, Toxigenic fungi and mycotoxin associated with figs in the Mediterranean area, Phytopathologia Mediterranea, Vol. 51, No. 1, ...

Among nearly 550 patients, 17 (3.1 percent) were colonized with toxigenic C. diff on admission and an additional three patients were found to be colonized during hospitalization.

Non-toxigenic strains of Aspergillus flavus (Link) can be used as biological control agents to reduce the contamination of grains such as maize with carcinogenic and immunotoxic aflatoxins. Based on ...

Analyses revealed: Toxigenic C diff was detected in 1% of meconium samples and 19% of 2-month, 37% of 6-month, 40% of 12-month, and 8% of 24-month samples ...

Children aged 3 and younger had a C difficile positivity rate of 22.4% and a toxigenic C difficile rate of 7.0%. Those higher rates were in line with previous studies, the authors said.

Major Australian supermarkets, including Aldi, Woolworths, Coles, and IGA, have issued an urgent recall of various spinach-based products following the detection of Shiga toxigenic Escherichia ...