2 This recall was initiated due to potential contamination of Bacillus cereus ... of three different organisms grown on MacConkey Agar. Top: Escherichia coli, Bottom left: Proteus vulgaris ...

MacConkey agar was incubated at 30ºC and meat extract B agar at ... a meropenem-resistant strain of Bacillus cereus (M1-R) on Müeller-Hinton agar plate with a 10 µg meropenem disc after 20 h at 36ºC.

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne. Bacillus cereus is rarely a pulmonary pathogen but may cause pneumonia in immunocompromised patients. A patient with ...

This case represents a rare fulminant course of fried-rice associated food poisoning in an immunocompetent person due to pre-formed exotoxin produced by Bacillus cereus, with severe manifestations of ...