Bacillus acidiceler sp. nov., isolated from a forensic specimen, containing Bacillus anthracis pX02 genes

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2031-2036

  Peak, K Kealy ^a   Duncan, Kathleen E ^b   Veguilla, William ^a   Luna, Vicki A ^a   King, Debra S ^a   Heller, Loreé ^a,d   Heberlein Larson, Lea ^c   Reeves, Frank ^c   Cannons, Andrew C ^a   Amuso, Philip ^a,c   Cattani, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d Memorial Hospital of Tampa   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL RNA; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; DALFOPRISTIN PLUS QUINUPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN G; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 16S; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTHRAX; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS ACIDICELER; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS LUCIFERENSIS; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACILLUS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FATTY ACIDS; FLORIDA; GENES, RRNA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LOCOMOTION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS GROUP; BACILLUS LUCIFERENSIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 34848837732     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.64993-0     Document Type: Article

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