Jim Shannon – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jim Shannon on 2014-06-17.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people were infected with bacillus cereus in each of the last five years.
Jane Ellison
The numbers of reported patient infection episodes of Bacillus cereus, isolated from blood samples from all age-groups between 2009 and 2013 in England, are shown in the following table.
|
Year |
Number of patient infection episodes |
Organism name |
Specimen type |
Country |
|
2009 |
50 |
Bacillus Cereus |
Blood |
England |
|
2010 |
46 |
Bacillus Cereus |
Blood |
England |
|
2011 |
39 |
Bacillus Cereus |
Blood |
England |
|
2012 |
37 |
Bacillus Cereus |
Blood |
England |
|
2013 |
56 |
Bacillus Cereus |
Blood |
England |
These data were extracted from Public Health England’s centralised microbiology database (LabBase2), which collects voluntarily reported microbiology data from participating laboratories across England. Although only clinically significant isolates should be reported to LabBase2, some of the reports may be contaminants that occurred either during collection or during processing of samples as B. cereus is a ubiquitous environmental organism.
