Use of fatty acid methyl ester profiles for discrimination of Bacillus cereus T-strain spores grown on different media

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1902-1912

  Ehrhardt, Christopher J ^a   Chu, Vivian ^a   Brown, Teecie ^a,b   Simmons, Terrie L ^a   Swan, Brandon K ^c   Bannan, Jason ^d   Robertson, James M ^a  

^a Federal Bureau of Investigation   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d FBI LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR FATTY ACIDS; CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS; COLUMBIA; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSIS; FATTY ACID METHYL ESTER; FORENSIC INVESTIGATION; NON-METRIC MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; PRODUCTION METHODS; R VALUE; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SINGLE SPECIES; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; STRAIN SPORES;

ACIDS; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; OLEIC ACID;

BACILLUS CEREUS;

ESTER; FATTY ACID;

BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOMARKER; BLOOD; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ESTER; FATTY ACID; SPORULATION;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIUM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING;

BACILLUS CEREUS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIA; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; SPORES, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77749285635     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02443-09     Document Type: Article

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