Identification of anthrax toxin genes in a Bacillus cereus associated with an illness resembling inhalation anthrax.

AR, Hoffmaster; J, Ravel; DA, Rasko; GD, Chapman; MD, Chute; CK, Marston; BK, De; CT, Sacchi; C, Fitzgerald; LW, Mayer; MC, Maiden; FG, Priest; M, Barker; L, Jiang; RZ, Cer; J, Rilstone; SN, Peterson; RS, Weyant; DR, Galloway; TD, Read; T, Popovic; CM, Fraser

doi:10.1073/pnas.0402414101

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Identification of anthrax toxin genes in a Bacillus cereus associated with an illness resembling inhalation anthrax.

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Hoffmaster AR

Ravel J

Rasko DA

Abstract

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 poisoning, by the presence of plasmids pXO1 and pXO2, which encode the lethal toxin complex and the poly-gamma-d-glut...

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