TY - JOUR AU - Lotte, Romain AU - Hérissé, Anne-Laure AU - Berrouane, Yasmina AU - Lotte, Laurène AU - Casagrande, Florence AU - Landraud, Luce AU - Herbin, Sabine AU - Ramarao, Nalini AU - Boyer, Laurent AU - Ruimy, Raymond T1 - Virulence Analysis of Bacillus cereus Isolated after Death of Preterm Neonates, Nice, France, 2013 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2017 VL - 23 IS - 5 SP - 845 SN - 1080-6059 AB - After the deaths of 2 preterm neonates with Bacillus cereus systemic infection in the same intensive care unit, we investigated the pathogenic potential of this bacterium. Genetic and virulence analysis indicated the neonates were infected with 2 different strains with a virulence potential similar to environmental strains, indicating likely patient immune response failure. KW - Bacillus cereus KW - emerging pathogen KW - virulence KW - bacteria KW - environmental pathogen KW - neonates KW - Nice KW - France DO - 10.3201/eid2305.161788 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/5/16-1788_article ER - End of Reference