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| Title |
Toxin production in a rare and genetically remote cluster of strains of the Bacillus cereus group
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| Published in |
BMC Microbiology, May 2007
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2180-7-43 |
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| Authors |
Annette Fagerlund, Julien Brillard, Rainer Fürst, Marie-Hélène Guinebretière, Per Einar Granum |
| Abstract |
Three enterotoxins are implicated in diarrhoeal food poisoning due to Bacillus cereus: Haemolysin BL (Hbl), Non-haemolytic enterotoxin (Nhe), and Cytotoxin K (CytK). Toxin gene profiling and assays for detection of toxin-producing stains have been used in attempts to evaluate the enterotoxic potential of B. cereus group strains. B. cereus strain NVH 391/98, isolated from a case of fatal enteritis, was genetically remote from other B. cereus group strains. This strain lacked the genes encoding Hbl and Nhe, but contains CytK-1. The high virulence of this strain is thought to be due to the greater cytotoxic activity of CytK-1 compared to CytK-2, and to a high level of cytK expression. To date, only three strains containing cytK-1 have been identified; B. cereus strains NVH 391/98, NVH 883/00, and INRA AF2. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 2% |
| Mexico | 1 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 43 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 11 | 24% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 7% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 4 | 9% |
| Unknown | 9 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 24 | 52% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 11% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 3 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 2 | 4% |
| Neuroscience | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 10 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 November 2011.
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#7,445,163
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#856
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#24,919
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#5
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