{"id":8712,"date":"2011-08-22T20:38:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T20:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/?p=8712"},"modified":"2011-11-23T21:01:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T21:01:54","slug":"prevalence-of-clostridium-difficile-in-retail-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/prevalence-of-clostridium-difficile-in-retail-pork\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence of Clostridium difficile in retail pork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><em>Clostridium difficile <\/em>was isolated from 1.8% (7\/393) of retail pork samples obtained from 4 Canadian provinces. Five ribotypes and 3 toxinotypes were identified. Three isolates were indistinguishable from the international outbreak strain ribotype 027 and were toxinotype III. Although the implications for food safety practices remain elusive, the frequency of toxigenic isolates and isolates indistinguishable from known human pathogenic strains suggests contaminated pork may be a source of <em>C. difficile <\/em>in humans<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;\"><span style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: ComputerModern-Regular;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Clostridium difficile was isolated from 1.8% (7\/393) of retail pork samples obtained from 4 Canadian provinces. Five ribotypes and 3 toxinotypes were identified. Three isolates were indistinguishable from the international outbreak strain ribotype 027 and were toxinotype III. Although the implications for food safety practices remain elusive, the frequency of toxigenic isolates and isolates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[8882,13816,2817,15280,20007,10859,3974,16262,1324,8295,14805,396,1533,9857,35,20911,8296,11771],"class_list":["post-8712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-production","tag-al","tag-ass","tag-cla","tag-difficile-toxintype","tag-gh","tag-nat","tag-pathogen","tag-pl","tag-pork","tag-ribotype","tag-rn","tag-safety","tag-size","tag-strains","tag-swine","tag-t","tag-toxintype","tag-www-prairieswine-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8712"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10095,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions\/10095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}