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Production of an Emetic Toxin, Cereulide, Is Associated with a Specific Class of Bacillus cereus

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The emetic toxin (cereulide) of Bacillus cereus was quantified in several isolates of B. cereus and in various food sources. When the emetic toxin was produced, vomiting-type food poisoning was observed in humans. We also found that the H-1 serovar phenotype was strongly associated with the production of cereulide and that none of the isolates that hydrolyzed starch or expressed diarrheal enterotoxin activity produced cereulide.

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  1. Nagoya City Public Health Research Institute, 1-11 Hagiyamacho, Mizuho, Nagoya 467, Japan , , , , , , JP

    Norio Agata & Masashi Mori

  2. Department of Bacteriology, Nagoya University School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumaicho, Showa, Nagoya 466, Japan , , , , , , JP

    Michio Ohta

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Received: 4 December 1995 / Accepted: 30 January 1996

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Agata, N., Ohta, M. & Mori, M. Production of an Emetic Toxin, Cereulide, Is Associated with a Specific Class of Bacillus cereus . Curr Microbiol 33, 67–69 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002849900076

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