Extending the Bacillus cereus group genomics to putative food-borne pathogens of different toxicity

Chemico-Biological Interactions

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 236-249

  Lapidus, Alla ^a   Goltsman, Eugene ^a   Auger, Sandrine ^b   Galleron, Nathalie ^b   Ségurens, Béatrice ^c   Dossat, Carole ^c   Land, Miriam L ^a   Broussolle, Veronique ^d   Brillard, Julien ^d   Guinebretiere, Marie Helene ^d   Sanchis, Vincent ^b   Nguen the, Christophe ^d   Lereclus, Didier ^b   Richardson, Paul ^a   Wincker, Patrick ^c   Weissenbach, Jean ^c   Ehrlich, S Dusko ^b   Sorokin, Alexei ^b  

^a DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE SÉQUENÇAGE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

Author keywords

Bacillus cytotoxicus; Bacillus cytotoxis; cereus; cereus toxins; Food poisoning; Genomics; Psychrophily

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; NHE TOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CYTOTOXICUS; BACILLUS CYTOTOXIS; FOOD POISONING; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CEREUS GROUP; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 38349154013     PISSN: 00092797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbi.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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