Volume 25, Number 5—May 2019
CME ACTIVITY - Research
Novel Sequence Type in Bacillus cereus Strains Associated with Nosocomial Infections and Bacteremia, Japan
Reiko Akamatsu, Masato Suzuki, Keiji Okinaka, Teppei Sasahara, Kunikazu Yamane, Satowa Suzuki, Daisuke Fujikura1, Yoshikazu Furuta, Naomi Ohnishi2, Minoru Esaki, Keigo Shibayama, and Hideaki Higashi
Table 5
Allele profiles of ST1420 and similar sequence types of Bacillus cereus, Japan*
| Strain | ST | Gene allele |
Country of origin | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| glpF | gmk | ilvD | pta | pur | pycA | tpi | |||
| ST1420 strains found in this study | 1420† | 62 | 1 | 93 | 109 | 55 | 102 | 210‡ | Japan |
| BC1 | 366 | 62 | 1 | 113 | 109 | 55 | 102 | 83 | Japan |
| 2M5 | NA | 62 | 1 | 93 | 109 | 55 | 37 | 210‡ | Burkina Faso |
*NA, not available; ST, sequence type.
†ST found in this study.
‡New alleles in the Multilocus Sequencing Typing Database (https://pubmlst.org).
1Current affiliation: Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan.
2Current affiliation: Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan
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