TY - GEN T1 - Presence of Clostridium difficile in poultry and poultry meat in Egypt AU - Abdel-Glil, Mostafa Y. AU - Thomas, Prasad AU - Schmoock, Gernot AU - Abou-El-Azm, Kamel AU - Wieler, Lothar H. AU - Neubauer, Heinrich AU - Seyboldt, Christian AB - C. difficile has been recognized as a potential zoonotic agent encouraging investigations of C. difficile prevalence and ribotypes in animals. Here we report the prevalence and diversity of Egyptian C. difficile in I) samples from healthy poultry (n = 50), II) samples from diseased poultry (n = 54), and III) poultry meat (n = 150). Thirteen isolates were obtained from seven healthy and five diseased animals, but no C. difficile was cultured from poultry meat. The isolated C. difficile strains belonged to 3 different PCR-ribotypes (039/2, 205 and 001/FLI01). The detection of strains related to RT 001 known for its ability to cause disease in humans makes poultry a potential reservoir for pathogenic C. difficile. KW - Clostridium difficile KW - Egypt KW - Poultry KW - Zoonosis KW - PCR-Ribotyping KW - 610 Medizin PY - 2018 LA - eng PB - Robert Koch-Institut VL - 51 DO - 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2018.03.009 ER -