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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2008, p. 7451-7453, Vol. 74, No. 23
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01284-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Identification of Bacillus cereus Group Species Associated with Food Poisoning Outbreaks in British Columbia, Canada{triangledown}

Lorraine McIntyre,1* Kathryn Bernard,2 Daniel Beniac,2 Judith L. Isaac-Renton,3,4 and David Craig Naseby5

Food Protection Services, BC Centre for Disease Control, 655 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V5Z 4R4,1 National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, 1015 Arlington St., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3E 3R2,2 Laboratory Services, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,3 Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z4,4 School of Life Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, United Kingdom5

Received 2 June 2008/ Accepted 2 October 2008

Food poisoning laboratories identify Bacillus cereus using routine methods that may not differentiate all Bacillus cereus group species. We recharacterized Bacillus food-poisoning strains from 39 outbreaks and identified B. cereus in 23 outbreaks, B. thuringiensis in 4, B. mycoides in 1, and mixed strains of Bacillus in 11 outbreaks.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: BC Centre for Disease Control, Food Protection Services, Main Floor, 655 West 12th Ave., Vancouver, BC, Canada V5Z 4R4. Phone: (604) 775-0763. Fax: (604) 660-6628. E-mail: lorraine.mcintyre{at}bccdc.ca

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 10 October 2008.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2008, p. 7451-7453, Vol. 74, No. 23
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01284-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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