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Serotypes of Bacillus cereus from outbreaks of food poisoning and from routine foods.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  401846     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
A provisional serotyping scheme was used to type cultures of Bacillus cereus from 84 outbreaks of food poisoning in seven countries; 283 of the 337 (84%) cultures tested were typable. In 35 of the 61 outbreaks associated with a vomiting-type syndrome, foods, clinical specimens or both yielded H-serotype 1 only. Type 1 strains together with other sterotypes were isolated in seven outbreaks. In 14 outbreaks types 3, 4, 5, 8 or a mixture of serotypes were present. Untypable strains were isolated in five outbreaks. Two of the nine diarrhoeal-type outbreaks yielded serotype 1 only. Types 2, 6, 8, 9, 10 and a mixture of type 12 and an untypable strain appeared to be responsible for one outbreak each. Although 16 of the 18 recognized serotypes were present among cultures of B. cereus from various routine foods, only 156 of the 400 (39%) isolates tested were typable.
Authors:
R J Gilbert; J M Parry
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Journal of hygiene     Volume:  78     ISSN:  0022-1724     ISO Abbreviation:  J Hyg (Lond)     Publication Date:  1977 Feb 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1977-03-31     Completed Date:  1977-03-31     Revised Date:  2010-09-02    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0375374     Medline TA:  J Hyg (Lond)     Country:  ENGLAND    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  69-74     Citation Subset:  IM    
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Australia
Bacillus cereus / classification*,  immunology,  isolation & purification
Canada
Diarrhea / microbiology
Disease Outbreaks
Finland
Foodborne Diseases / microbiology*
Great Britain
Humans
Netherlands
Norway
Serotyping
United States
Vomiting / microbiology
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