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SUBMITTER: Auger S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2258573 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Auger Sandrine S Galleron Nathalie N Bidnenko Elena E Ehrlich S Dusko SD Lapidus Alla A Sorokin Alexei A
Applied and environmental microbiology 20071221 4
Bacteria of the Bacillus cereus group are known to cause food poisoning. A rare phylogenetically remote strain, NVH391-98, was recently characterized to encode a particularly efficient cytotoxin K presumably responsible for food poisoning. This pathogenic strain and its close relatives can be phenotypically distinguished from other strains of the B. cereus group by the inability to grow at temperatures below 17 degrees C and by the ability to grow at temperatures from 48 to 53 degrees C. A tempe ...[more]