Discrimination of psychrotrophic and mesophilic strains of the Bacillus cereus group by PCR targeting of major cold shock protein genes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3525-3529

  Francis, Kevin P ^a   Mayr, Ralf ^a   Von Stetten, Felix ^a   Stewart, Gordon S A B ^b   Scherer, Siegfried ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COLD SHOCK PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MYCOIDES; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031665470     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.9.3525-3529.1998     Document Type: Article

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