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Case Reports
. 2005 Aug;43(8):4277-9.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.43.8.4277-4279.2005.

Fatal family outbreak of Bacillus cereus-associated food poisoning

Katelijne Dierick  1 , Els Van Coillie, Izabela Swiecicka, Geert Meyfroidt, Hugo Devlieger, Agnes Meulemans, Guy Hoedemaekers, Ludo Fourie, Marc Heyndrickx, Jacques Mahillon
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Case Reports

Fatal family outbreak of Bacillus cereus-associated food poisoning

Katelijne Dierick et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2005 Aug.

Abstract

Bacillus cereus is a well-known cause of food-borne illness, but infection with this organism is not commonly reported because of its usually mild symptoms. A fatal case due to liver failure after the consumption of pasta salad is described and demonstrates the possible severity of the emetic syndrome.

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FIG. 1.
FIG. 1.
Cluster analysis of the (GTG)5 fingerprints and toxin production of B. cereus isolates. As listed in the Isolatea column, the following isolates have been deposited in the BCCM/LMG Bacteria Collection (Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium): 5975a (LMG 22728); 5965c (LMG 22729); 5972a (LMG 22730); 5969a (LMG 22731); 5958c (LMG 22732); 5964a (LMG 22733). Toxin titerb column: emetic and enterotoxin titers detected on the basis of cytotoxicity assays. cerc column: emetic toxin-specific marker detected in the PCR assay. The reference strain for emetic toxin production is identified with a superscript “d” suffix in the Isolatea column. The reference strain for enterotoxin production is identified with a superscript “e” suffix. ND, not determined.
FIG. 2.
FIG. 2.
Representative PFGE patterns (A to D) of AscI (A)- and NotI (B)-digested genomic DNA of B. cereus isolates. M, yeast chromosome PFGE marker; m, lambda 48.5-kb size marker. The values on the left and right are molecular mass markers in kilobases.
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