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

作者：Claudia Probst, Henry Njapau, Peter J. Cotty · 发表于：Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 年份：2007 · DOI：10.1128/aem.02370-06 · 被引用次数：449 · 研究领域：Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food、Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology、Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics

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.