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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 74, Issue 4, Pages 1276-1280Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02242-07
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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 temperate phage, phBC391A2, residing in the genome of NVH391-98 allows us to distinguish the three known members of this thermophilic strain cluster.
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