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Genetic diversity of clinical isolates of Bacillus cereus using multilocus sequence typing.
BMC microbiology - 6 Nov 2008
Hoffmaster Alex R, Novak Ryan T, Marston Chung K, Gee Jay E, Helsel Leta, Pruckler James M, Wilkins Patricia P
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BACKGROUND: Bacillus cereus is most commonly associated with foodborne illness (diarrheal and emetic) but is also an opportunistic pathogen that can cause severe and fatal infections. Several multilocus sequence typing (MLST) schemes have recently been developed to genotype B. cereus and analysis has suggested a clonal or weakly clonal population structure for B. cereus and its close relatives B. anthracis and B....
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