Volume 25, Number 5—May 2019
CME ACTIVITY - Research
Novel Sequence Type in Bacillus cereus Strains Associated with Nosocomial Infections and Bacteremia, Japan
Table 5
Allele profiles of ST1420 and similar sequence types of Bacillus cereus, Japan*
Strain | ST | Gene allele |
Country of origin | ||||||
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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