Bacillus cereus may produce two or more diarrheal enterotoxins

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 245-248

  Ombui, Jackson N ^a,b   Schmieger, Horst ^b   Kagiko, Michael M ^a   Arimi, Sammel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus; Enterotoxin; Hybridization; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; HYBRIDIZATION; LATEX AGGLUTINATION TEST; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DIARRHEA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROTOXINS; FOOD POISONING; HYDROLYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STARCH;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030937186     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00083-9     Document Type: Article

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