Expression of binary toxin genes in the mosquito-colonizable bacteria, Bacillus cereus, leads to high toxicity against Culex quinquefasciatus larvae

Current Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 372-375

  Luxananil, Plearnpis ^a   Tanapongpipat, Sutipa ^a   Promdonkoy, Boonhiang ^a   Atomi, Haruyuki ^b   Imanaka, Tadayuki ^b   Panyim, Sakol ^c  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LARVA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT PLASMID;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SPHAERICUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0141446119     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-002-4026-9     Document Type: Article

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