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 …

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 …

Members of the Bacillus cereus group of organisms include Bacillus cereus, Bacillus
anthracis and Bacillus thuringiensis. Collectively, these organisms represent microbes of …

The genus Bacillus includes members that demonstrate a wide range of diversity from
physiology and ecological niche to DNA sequence and gene regulation. The species of …

Certain pathogenic species of Bacillus and Clostridium have developed unique methods for
intoxicating cells that employ the classic enzymatic “AB” paradigm for protein toxins. The …

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 …

Bacillus anthracis is the etiologic agent of anthrax, an acute fatal disease among mammals.
It was thought to differ from Bacillus cereus, an opportunistic pathogen and cause of food …

Six bacterial genomes, Geobacter metallireducens GS-15, Chromohalobacter salexigens,
Vibrio breoganii 1C-10, Bacillus cereus ATCC 10987, Campylobacter jejuni subsp. jejuni 81 …

The genome of Bacillus licheniformis DSM13 consists of a single chromosome that has a
size of 4,222,748 base pairs. The average G+ C ratio is 46.2%. 4,286 open reading frames …

Representative strains of the Bacillus cereus group of bacteria, including Bacillus anthracis
(11 isolates), B. cereus (38 isolates), Bacillus mycoides (1 isolate), Bacillus thuringiensis (53 …