Comparison of the cellular fatty acid composition of a bacterium isolated from a human and alleged to be Bacillus sphaericus with that of Bacillus sphaericus isolated from a mosquito larvicide

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1006-1010

  Siegel, J P ^a,b   Smith, A R ^b   Novak, R J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; MYRISTIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GAS LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIPID COMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELL FUSING AGENT VIRUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031026941     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.3.1006-1010.1997     Document Type: Article

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