Open AccessOutbreak of an Acute Aflatoxicosis in Kenya in 2004: Identification of the Causal Agent
Author(s) -
Claudia Probst,
Henry Njapau,
Peter J. Cotty
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
applied and environmental microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.552
H-Index - 324
eISSN - 1070-6291
pISSN - 0099-2240
DOI - 10.1128/aem.02370-06
Subject(s) - aflatoxin , outbreak , aspergillus flavus , mycotoxin , biology , aspergillus , microbiology and biotechnology , veterinary medicine , virology , medicine
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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