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Outbreak of an Acute Aflatoxicosis in Kenya in 2004: Identification of the Causal Agent

Published:2007-04-15 Issue:8 Volume:73 Page:2762-2764
ISSN:0099-2240
Container-title:Applied and Environmental Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:Appl Environ Microbiol

Author:

Probst Claudia¹,Njapau Henry²,Cotty Peter J.¹³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

2. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland

3. USDA-ARS, Department of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

Abstract

ABSTRACT Maize contaminated with aflatoxins has been implicated in deadly epidemics in Kenya three times since 1981, but the fungi contaminating the maize with aflatoxins have not been characterized. Here we associate the S strain of Aspergillus flavus with lethal aflatoxicoses that took more than 125 lives in 2004.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/AEM.02370-06

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