The Bacillus cereus group includes several Bacillus species with closely related phylogeny.
The most well-studied members of the group, B. anthracis, B. cereus, and B. thuringiensis …

Bacillus cereus is a Gram-positive aerobic or facultatively anaerobic, motile, spore-forming,
rod-shaped bacterium that is widely distributed environmentally. While B. cereus is …

To help advance the species definition for prokaryotes, we have compared the gene content
of 70 closely related and fully sequenced bacterial genomes to identify whether species …

Bacillus cereus is widespread in nature and frequently isolated from soil and growing plants,
but it is also well adapted for growth in the intestinal tract of insects and mammals. From …

Bioterrorism has received a lot of attention in the first decade of this century. Biological
agents are considered attractive weapons for bioterrorism as these are easy to obtain …

Through the use of intravital imaging of the liver, we demonstrate a collaborative role for
platelets with Kupffer cells (KCs) in eradicating blood-borne bacterial infection. Under basal …

Anthrax is caused by the spore-forming, gram-positive bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The
bacterium's major virulence factors are (a) the anthrax toxins and (b) an antiphagocytic …

Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was proposed in 1998 as a portable, universal, and
definitive method for characterizing bacteria, using the human pathogen Neisseria …

Lactobacilli are used widely in food, feed, and health applications. The taxonomy of the
genus Lactobacillus, however, is confounded by the apparent lack of physiological markers …

Microbial ecology is the study of interactions among microbes in natural environments and
their roles in biogeochemical cycles, food web dynamics, and the evolution of life. Microbes …