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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2007, p. 2762-2764, Vol. 73, No. 8
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02370-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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

Claudia Probst,1 Henry Njapau,2 and Peter J. Cotty1,3*

Department of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona,1 Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland,2 USDA-ARS, Department of Plant Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona3

Received 7 October 2006/ Accepted 12 February 2007

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.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: University of Arizona, USDA-ARS, Department of Plant Sciences, P.O. Box 210036, Tucson, AZ 85721. Phone: (520) 626-6775. Fax: (520) 626-5944. E-mail: pjcotty{at}email.arizona.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 16 February 2007.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, April 2007, p. 2762-2764, Vol. 73, No. 8
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.02370-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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