Discrimination among Bacillus cereus, B. mycoides and B. thuringiensis and some other species of the genus Bacillus by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 201-206

  Beattie, Sally H ^a   Holt, Carl ^a   Hirst, David ^b   Williams, Alan G ^a  

^a HANNAH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B. cereus; Bacillus; Canonical variate analysis; Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CATTLE; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; MILK; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

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

EID: 0032124914     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00194-3     Document Type: Article

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