Article
Bacillus anthracis but not always anthrax.
The Journal of applied bacteriology - 1 Jan 1992
Turnbull P C, Hutson R A, Ward M J, Jones M N, Quinn C P, Finnie N J, Duggleby C J, Kramer J M, Melling J
Abstract excerpt
Gram-positive bacilli isolated during epidemiological investigations which, on the basis of conventional tests, resemble Bacillus anthracis but which fail to produce the capsule or to induce anthrax in test animals have long been dismissed in clinical and veterinary laboratories as B. cereus or simply as unidentified Bacillus spp. and thereupon discarded as inconsequential. In this study, the application of newly...
Topics
- Animals
- Anthrax
- Bacillus anthracis
- DNA Probes
- DNA, Bacterial
- Humans
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Phenotype
- Plasmids
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Virulence