From soil to gut: Bacillus cereus and its food poisoning toxins

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 579-606

  Stenfors Arnesen, Lotte P ^a   Fagerlund, Annette ^a   Granum, Per Einar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bacillus cereus; Cereulide; Cytotoxin; Foodborne disease; Tripartite toxin

Indexed keywords

CYTOLYSIN; CYTOTOXIN; ENTEROTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; TOXIN;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOOD POISONING; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SOIL;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS CEREUS; DIARRHEA; ENTEROTOXINS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD POISONING; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PORE FORMING CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; VOMITING;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 44849109513     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2008.00112.x     Document Type: Review

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