Capsules, toxins and AtxA as virulence factors of emerging Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis.

• Principais autores: Christophe Brézillon (Autor), Michel Haustant (Autor), Susann Dupke (Autor), Jean-Philippe Corre (Autor), Angelika Lander (Autor), Tatjana Franz (Autor), Marc Monot (Autor), Evelyne Couture-Tosi (Autor), Gregory Jouvion (Autor), Fabian H Leendertz (Autor), Roland Grunow (Autor), Michèle E Mock (Autor), Silke R Klee (Autor), Pierre L Goossens (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Emerging B. cereus strains that cause anthrax-like disease have been isolated in Cameroon (CA strain) and Côte d'Ivoire (CI strain). These strains are unusual, because their genomic characterisation shows that they belong to the B. cereus species, although they harbour two plasmids, pBCXO1 and...