Strategy for Identification of Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis Strains Closely Related to Bacillus anthracis
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Strategy for identification of Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis strains closely related to Bacillus anthracis.
Bacillus cereus strains that are genetically closely related to B. anthracis can display anthrax-like virulence traits (A. R. Hoffmaster et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101:8449-8454, 2004). Hence, approaches that rapidly identify these "near neighbors" are of great interest for the study of B. anthracis virulence mechanisms, as well as to prevent the use of such strains for B. anthracis-bas...
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عنوان ژورنال: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0099-2240,1098-5336
DOI: 10.1128/aem.72.2.1295-1301.2006