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Bovine Bacillus anthracis in Cameroon.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 15 Aug 2011
Pilo Paola, Rossano Alexandra, Bamamga Hamadou, Abdoulkadiri Souley, Perreten Vincent, Frey Joachim
Abstract excerpt
Bovine Bacillus anthracis isolates from Cameroon were genetically characterized. They showed a strong homogeneity, and they belong, together with strains from Chad, to cluster Aβ, which appears to be predominant in western Africa. However, one strain that belongs to a newly defined clade (D) and cluster (D1) is penicillin resistant and shows certain phenotypes typical of Bacillus cereus.
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