Outbreak of an acute aflatoxicosis in Kenya in 2004: Identification of the causal agent

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作者：

Probst, Claudia

Njapau, Henry

Cotty, Peter J.

机构：

[1] Univ Arizona, USDA ARS, Dept Plant Sci, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

[2] US FDA, Ctr Food Safety & Appl Nutr, College Pk, MD USA

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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY | 2007年 / 73卷 / 08期

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D O I：

10.1128/AEM.02370-06

中图分类号：

Q81 [生物工程学（生物技术）]; Q93 [微生物学];

学科分类号：

071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;

摘要：

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.

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