Bacillus cytotoxicus sp. nov. is a novel thermotolerant species of the Bacillus cereus Group occasionally associated with food poisoning.

MH, Guinebretière; S, Auger; N, Galleron; M, Contzen; Sarrau B, De; Buyser ML, De; G, Lamberet; A, Fagerlund; PE, Granum; D, Lereclus; Vos P, De; C, Nguyen-The; A, Sorokin

doi:10.1099/ijs.0.030627-0

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Bacillus cytotoxicus sp. nov. is a novel thermotolerant species of the Bacillus cereus Group occasionally associated with food poisoning.

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Guinebretière MH

Auger S

Galleron N

Abstract

An aerobic endospore-forming bacillus (NVH 391-98(T)) was isolated during a severe food poisoning outbreak in France in 1998, and four other similar strains have since been isolated, also mostly from food poisoning cases. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, these strains were shown to belong...

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