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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, July 2006, p. 5118-5121, Vol. 72, No. 7
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00170-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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Characterization of Emetic Bacillus weihenstephanensis, a New Cereulide-Producing Bacterium{dagger}

Line Thorsen,1 Bjarne Munk Hansen,2 Kristian Fog Nielsen,3 Niels Bohse Hendriksen,2 Richard Kerry Phipps,3 and Birgitte Bjørn Budde1*

Department of Food Science, Food Microbiology, Centre for Advanced Food Studies (LMC), The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark,1 Department of Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology, National Environmental Research Institute, Roskilde, Denmark,2 The Mycology Group, BioCentrum, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark3

Received 23 January 2006/ Accepted 20 April 2006

Cereulide production has until now been restricted to the species Bacillus cereus. Here we report on two psychrotolerant Bacillus weihenstephanensis strains, MC67 and MC118, that produce cereulide. The strains are atypical with regard to pheno- and genotypic characteristics normally used for identification of emetic B. cereus strains. MC67 and MC118 produced cereulide at temperatures of as low as 8°C.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Department of Food Science, Rolighedsvej 30, 4th Floor, DK-1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark. Fax: 45 35 28 32 14. Phone: 45 35 28 32 84. E-mail: birgitte.budde{at}privat.dk.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://aem.asm.org/.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, July 2006, p. 5118-5121, Vol. 72, No. 7
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00170-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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