Combined production of Non-Hemolytic Enterotoxin and Sphingomyelinase as a marker of diarrheal food poisoning strains in the Bacillus cereus group
Priscilla de Freitas Cardoso, Nathalie Gilois, Gislayne Trindade Vilas-Bôas, Didier Lereclus, Michel Gohar, Stéphane Perchat, Leyla Slamti
The paper develops a sandwich ELISA to quantify NheA and SMase proteins in B. cereus group isolates, showing they distinguish diarrheal food poisoning strains from non-pathogenic ones.
bioRxiv · Aug 31, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology