The Bacillus cereus Group: Bacillus Species with Pathogenic Potential

M Ehling-Schulz, D Lereclus, TM Koehler - Microbiology spectrum, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
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 …

[HTML][HTML] The food poisoning toxins of Bacillus cereus

R Dietrich, N Jessberger, M Ehling-Schulz… - Toxins, 2021 - mdpi.com
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Microbial species delineation using whole genome sequences

NJ Varghese, S Mukherjee, N Ivanova… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Increased sequencing of microbial genomes has revealed that prevailing prokaryotic
species assignments can be inconsistent with whole genome information for a significant …

Bacillus cereus: epidemiology, virulence factors, and host–pathogen interactions

DE Tuipulotu, A Mathur, C Ngo, SM Man - Trends in Microbiology, 2021 - cell.com
The toxin-producing bacterium Bacillus cereus is an important and neglected human
pathogen and a common cause of food poisoning. Several toxins have been implicated in …

Past and future species definitions for Bacteria and Archaea

R Rosselló-Móra, R Amann - Systematic and applied microbiology, 2015 - Elsevier
Species is the basic unit of biological diversity. However, among the different microbiological
disciplines there is an important degree of disagreement as to what this unit may be. In this …

Proposal of nine novel species of the Bacillus cereus group

Y Liu, J Du, Q Lai, R Zeng, D Ye… - … journal of systematic …, 2017 - microbiologyresearch.org
Nine novel Gram-stain-positive bacteria were investigated by a polyphasic taxonomic
approach. Based on the analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences, these strains belonged to …

The Bacillus cereus Food Infection as Multifactorial Process

N Jessberger, R Dietrich, PE Granum, E Märtlbauer - Toxins, 2020 - mdpi.com
The ubiquitous soil bacterium Bacillus cereus presents major challenges to food safety. It is
responsible for two types of food poisoning, the emetic form due to food intoxication and the …

Integrating genomics into the taxonomy and systematics of the Bacteria and Archaea

J Chun, FA Rainey - International journal of systematic …, 2014 - microbiologyresearch.org
The polyphasic approach used today in the taxonomy and systematics of the Bacteria and
Archaea includes the use of phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and genotypic data. The use of …

Genomic insights into the taxonomic status of the Bacillus cereus group

Y Liu, Q Lai, M Göker, JP Meier-Kolthoff, M Wang… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The identification and phylogenetic relationships of bacteria within the Bacillus cereus group
are controversial. This study aimed at determining the taxonomic affiliations of these strains …

Benchmarking of methods for genomic taxonomy

MV Larsen, S Cosentino, O Lukjancenko… - Journal of clinical …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
One of the first issues that emerges when a prokaryotic organism of interest is encountered
is the question of what it is—that is, which species it is. The 16S rRNA gene formed the basis …