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The Bacillus cereus Hbl and Nhe tripartite enterotoxin components assemble sequentially on the surface of target cells and are not interchangeable.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Sastalla Inka, Fattah Rasem, Coppage Nicole, Nandy Poulomi, Crown Devorah, Pomerantsev Andrei P, Leppla Stephen H
Abstract excerpt
Bacillus cereus is a spore-forming, Gram-positive bacterium commonly associated with outbreaks of food poisoning. It is also known as an opportunistic pathogen causing clinical infections such as bacteremia, meningitis, pneumonia, and gas gangrene-like cutaneous infections, mostly in immunocompromised patients. B. cereus secretes a plethora of toxins of which four are associated with the symptoms of food...
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