Table 1.
Bacillus cereus sensu lato (B. cereus s.l.) genomes sequenced in this study and their corresponding metadata (n = 3).
| Isolate | Year of Isolation | Geographic Location of Isolation | Isolation Source (General) |
Isolation Source (Details) |
Host Illness | Host Age (Years) | Host Sex | Host Occupation |
Host Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BacLA2020a | 2020 | Louisiana, USA | Human clinical case |
Patient F a,b | Severe anthrax pneumonia |
39 | Male | Welder | Recovered c |
| BacLA2020b | 2020 | Louisiana, USA | Environmental isolate | Soil sample from Patient F’s worksite d | NA e | NA e | NA e | NA e | NA e |
| BacTX2020a | 2020 | Texas, USA | Human clinical case |
Patient G a | Severe anthrax pneumonia |
34 | Male | Welder | Fatal |
a Data from human clinical cases described by Dawson et al. [35]; b Patient F is a Mississippi resident who had recently worked as a welder in Louisiana [35]; c Patient F recovered after receiving anthrax antitoxin [35]; d Isolate BacLA2020b was recovered from a soil sample taken at Patient F’s worksite in Louisiana via an investigation conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [35]; e NA, not applicable for environmental isolates.