Microbiology: Current Research

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Bacillus Cereus Quality Articles

Bacillus cereus may be a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, beta-hemolytic, facultatively anaerobic, motile, spore forming bacterium commonly found in soil and food. The specific name, cereus, meaning "waxy" in Latin, refers to the looks of colonies grown on agar.

B. cereus illness is related to many foods - beef, turkey, rice, beans, vegetables. Specifically, the diarrheal illness is often related to meats, milk, vegetables, and fish. The emetic-type illness is most often associated with rice products, but it has also been associated with other types of starchy products such as potato, pasta, and cheese products. Some food-mixtures (sauces, puddings, soups, casseroles, pastries, and salads, have been associated with food-borne illness in general.

Bacillus cereus is caused by the ingestion of food contaminated with either the enterotoxigenic B. cereus or with the emetic toxin. In non-gastrointestinal illness, reports of respiratory infections similar to respiratory anthrax have been attributed to B. cereus strains harboring B. anthracis toxin genes.

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