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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 HigashiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan (R. Akamatsu, D. Fujikura, Y. Furuta, N. Ohnishi, H. Higashi); National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan (M. Suzuki, S. Suzuki, K. Shibayama); National Cancer Center Hospital, Tokyo (K. Okinaka, M. Esaki); Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan (T. Sasahara); Yonago Medical Center, Tottori, Japan (K. Yamane)

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Table 3

Sequence types and source of 10 Bacillus cereus Tottori strains, Japan*

Sequence type Sample name
1420† Tottori_ID2
Tottori_ID4_#2‡
Tottori_ID5
Tottori_ID6
Tottori_ID8
1431†
 Tottori_ID3
1828†
 Tottori_ID1
163
 Tottori_ID4_#1‡
368
 Tottori_ID7
953 Tottori_ID9

*All strains were isolated from patient blood.
†Sequence types found in this study.
‡Samples isolated from the same patients at different time points.

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1Current affiliation: Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Japan.

2Current affiliation: Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

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