The hemolytic enterotoxin HBL is broadly distributed among species of the Bacillus cereus group

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 5436-5442

  Prüß, Birgit M ^a,c   Dietrich, Richard ^b   Nibler, Birgit ^a   Märtlbauer, Erwin ^b   Scherer, Siegfried ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DNA; ENTEROTOXIN; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; GENE; HEMOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0039104860     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.12.5436-5442.1999     Document Type: Article

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