Identification of anthrax toxin genes in a bacillus cereus associated with an illness resembling inhalation anthrax

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 101, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 8449-8454

  Hoffmaster, Alex R ^a   Ravel, Jacques ^a   Rasko, David A ^b   Chapman, Gail D ^e   Chute, Michael D ^e   Marston, Chung K ^a   De, Barun K ^a   Sacchi, Claudio T ^a   Fitzgerald, Collette ^a   Mayer, Leonard W ^a   Maiden, Martin C J ^c   Priest, Fergus G ^d   Barker, Margaret ^d   Jiang, Lingxia ^b   Cer, Regina Z ^b   Rilstone, Jennifer ^b   Peterson, Scott N ^b   Weyant, Robbin S ^a   Galloway, Darrell R ^e   Read, Timothy D ^e   Popovic, Tanja ^a   Fraser, Claire M ^b   more..

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX TOXIN; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; RNA 16S;

ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENOME ANALYSIS; INHALATION ANTHRAX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PLASMID PBCXO1; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOXIN ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICE; PLASMIDS;

ANIMALIA; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; POSIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED PLASMID;

EID: 2942614873     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0402414101     Document Type: Article

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