Genotypic heterogeneity of emetic toxin producingBacillus cereusisolates from China

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Emetic toxin producing Bacillus cereus (emetic B. cereus) is the third member of B. cereus group whose toxins are encoded by megaplasmids, beside anthrax and insecticidal toxins of B. anthracis and B. thuringiensis respectively. 18 emetic isolates collected from food poisoning events, clinical and non-random food samples in Zhejiang province of China, were analyzed by plasmid screening, pulse field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), multi-locus sequence typing (MLST), as well as toxic gene identification to investigate their genotypic diversity. In this study, 13 plasmid profile types, 14 pulsetypes and 6 different STs from emetic isolates were detected, in which ST 1035,1038,1053,1054 and 1065 were firstly assigned and reported. The toxic gene ces existed on its own, or coexisted with other toxic genes bceT, cytk, entFM and nhe, but never with hbl in emetic isolates. The results demonstrated that the emetic B. cereus strains from China were heterologous at genotypic level.

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