Bacillus cytotoxicus sp. nov. is a novel thermotolerant species of the Bacillus cereus group occasionally associated with food poisoning

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 31-40

  Guinebretière, Marie Hélène ^a,b   Auger, Sandrine ^c   Galleron, Nathalie ^c   Contzen, Matthias ^d   de Sarrau, Benoit ^a,b   de Buyser, Marie Laure ^e   Lamberet, Gilles ^c   Fagerlund, Annette ^f   Granum, Per Einar ^f   Lereclus, Didier ^c   de Vos, Paul ^g   Nguyen The, Christophe ^a,b   Sorokin, Alexei ^c  

^a UMR A 408 INRA University of Avignon   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

^c UMR1319 MICALIS   (France)

^d Chemisches und Veterinaruntersuchungsamt Stuttgart   (Germany)

^e LERQUAP   (France)

^f NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^g GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FATTY ACID; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CYTOTOXICUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FOOD POISONING; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEAT TOLERANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACILLUS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FATTY ACIDS; FOODBORNE DISEASES; FRANCE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACILLUS CEREUS GROUP;

EID: 84872479278     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.030627-0     Document Type: Article

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