Genome sequence of Bacillus cereus and comparative analysis with Bacillus anthracis
Igenbio (United States) · Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique · +2 more institutions
Abstract
Bacillus cereus is an opportunistic pathogen causing food poisoning manifested by diarrhoeal or emetic syndromes. It is closely related to the animal and human pathogen Bacillus anthracis and the insect pathogen Bacillus thuringiensis, the former being used as a biological weapon and the latter as a pesticide. B. anthracis and B. thuringiensis are readily distinguished from B. cereus by the presence of plasmid-borne specific toxins (B. anthracis and B. thuringiensis) and capsule (B. anthracis). But phylogenetic studies based on the analysis of chromosomal genes bring controversial results, and it is unclear whether B. cereus, B. anthracis and B. thuringiensis are varieties of the same species or different…
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Authors
23- NINatalia IvanovaCorresponding
Igenbio (United States)
- ASAlexeï Sorokin
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Département Génétique Animale
- IAIain Anderson
Igenbio (United States)
- NGNathalie Galleron
Département Génétique Animale, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
- BCBenjamin Candelon
Département Génétique Animale, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Topics & keywords
- Bacillus anthracis
- Bacillus cereus
- Cereus
- Bacillus thuringiensis
- Biology
- Microbiology
- Genome
- Plasmid
- Zero hunger