ISSN: 2041-6792

Clinical Investigation

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Bacillus cereus is the second most often bacterial agent responsible for food-borne outbreaks in France and the third in Europe. In addition, local and systemic infections have been reported, especially describing individual cases or single hospital setting. The original incidence of such infection is unknown and information on genetic and phenotypic characteristics of the incriminated strains is commonly scarce. We performed an extensive study of Bacillus cereus strains isolated from patients and hospital environments from nine hospitals during a 5-year study, giving an overview of the consequences, sources and pathogenic patterns of Bacillus cereus clinical infections. We demonstrated the occurrence of several hospital-cross-contamination. B. cereus contamination may cause severe food safety problems.    

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