Background: Open Access Editor's Choice Review The Food Poisoning Toxins of Bacillus
cereus by Richard Dietrich 1,†, Nadja Jessberger 1,*,†, Monika Ehling-Schulz 2, Erwin …

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 …

It is a standard practice to test for the signature of homologous recombination in studies
examining the genetic diversity of bacterial populations. Although it has emerged that …

The most distinguishing feature of most members of the family Bacillaceae (phylum
Firmicutes) is their ability to form endospores that provide high resistance to heat, radiation …

Minimal standards for describing new taxa within the aerobic endospore-forming bacteria
are proposed, following Recommendation 30b of the Bacteriological Code (1990 Revision) …

Genetic exchange plays a defining role in the evolution of many bacteria. The recent
accumulation of nucleotide sequence data from multiple members of diverse bacterial …

Summary The Bacillus cereus Group comprises organisms that are widely distributed in the
environment and are of health and economic interest. We demonstrate an 'ecotypic'structure …

It is expected that the increasing genetic information on Bacillus cereus in genome
databases will pave the way for investigating its evolution, ecology, and virulence, and …

Strain BCT-7112 T was isolated in 1966 in Japan from a survey designed to obtain naturally
occurring microorganisms as pure cultures in the laboratory for use as probiotics in animal …

Bacillus anthracis is the cause of anthrax, and two large plasmids are essential for toxicity:
pXO1, which contains the toxin genes, and pXO2, which encodes a capsule. B. anthracis …