Bacillus weihenstephanensis sp. nov. is a new psychrotolerant species of the Bacillus cereus group

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1373-1382

  Lechner, Sabine ^a   Mayr, Ralf ^a   Francis, Kevin P ^a   Prüß, Birgit M ^a   Kaplan, Thomas ^a   Wießner Gunkel, Elke ^a   Stewart, Gordon S A B ^b   Scherer, Siegfried ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus group; Bacillus mycoides; Bacillus weihenstephanensis sp. nov.; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS CEREUS; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FOOD POISONING; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MYCOIDES; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS WEIHENSTEPHANENSIS;

EID: 0031783680     PISSN: 00207713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00207713-48-4-1373     Document Type: Article

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