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

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...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2007-04, Vol.73 (8), p.2762-2764
Hauptverfasser:	Probst, Claudia, Njapau, Henry, Cotty, Peter J
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aflatoxins - analysis Aflatoxins - toxicity Aspergillus flavus Aspergillus flavus - isolation & purification Aspergillus flavus - metabolism Biological and medical sciences Corn Correlation analysis Disease Outbreaks Food contamination & poisoning Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Fungi Humans Kenya - epidemiology Microbiology Mycotoxicosis - epidemiology Pathology Public Health Microbiology Toxins Zea mays Zea mays - microbiology
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Zusammenfassung:	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.
ISSN:	0099-2240 1098-5336
DOI:	10.1128/AEM.02370-06