Bacillus cereus, a serious cause of nosocomial infections: Epidemiologic and genetic survey.

ABSTRACT: Bacillus cereus is the 2nd most frequent bacterial agent responsible for food-borne outbreaks in France and the 3rd in Europe. In addition, local and systemic infections have been reported, mainly describing individual cases or single hospital setting. The real incidence of such infection is unknown and information on genetic and phenotypic characteristics of the incriminated strains is generally scarce. We performed an extensive study of B. 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 B. cereus clinical infections. We demonstrated the occurrence of several hospital-cross-contaminations. Identical B. cereus strains were recovered from different patients a

SUBMITTER: Glasset B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5966241 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature