Ba813 harboring Bacillus cereus, genetically closely related to Bacillus anthracis, causing nosocomial bloodstream infection: Bacterial virulence factors and clinical outcome

Tetsuji Aoyagi; Kengo Oshima; Shiro Endo; Hiroaki Baba; Hajime Kanamori; Makiko Yoshida; Koichi Tokuda; Mitsuo Kaku

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0235771

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Ba813 harboring Bacillus cereus, genetically closely related to Bacillus anthracis, causing nosocomial bloodstream infection: Bacterial virulence factors and clinical outcome

Tetsuji Aoyagi ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: tetsujiaoyagi@med.tohoku.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6821-9701

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Kengo Oshima,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Shiro Endo,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Hiroaki Baba,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Hajime Kanamori,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Makiko Yoshida,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Koichi Tokuda,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
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Mitsuo Kaku

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan, Department of Infectious Diseases, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Sendai, Japan
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Ba813 harboring Bacillus cereus, genetically closely related to Bacillus anthracis, causing nosocomial bloodstream infection: Bacterial virulence factors and clinical outcome

Tetsuji Aoyagi,
Kengo Oshima,
Shiro Endo,
Hiroaki Baba,
Hajime Kanamori,
Makiko Yoshida,
Koichi Tokuda,
Mitsuo Kaku

Published: July 13, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235771

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