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Bacillus cereus Food Poisoning Toxins by el is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document summarizes Bacillus cereus and its food poisoning toxins. B. cereus can cause two types of food poisoning - an emetic type caused by a preformed toxin and a diarrheal type caused by enterotoxins produced in the small intestine. The emetic toxin is a cyclic peptide and the enterotoxins are proteins that can act alone or together. B. cereus is a common cause of food poisoning worldwide and a variety of foods have been implicated in outbreaks.

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