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Outbreak of an acute aflatoxicosis in Kenya in 2004: Identification of the causal agent

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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 73, Issue 8, Pages 2762-2764

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AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02370-06

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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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