Background: Open Access Editor's Choice Review The Food Poisoning Toxins of Bacillus
cereus by Richard Dietrich 1,†, Nadja Jessberger 1,*,†, Monika Ehling-Schulz 2, Erwin …

The increasing demand for a steady, healthy food supply requires an efficient control of the
major pests and plant diseases. Current management practices are based largely on the …

Parasites and infectious diseases are everywhere and represent some of the most potent
forces sha** the natural world. They affect almost every aspect imaginable in the life of …

Bacillus cereus is widespread in nature and frequently isolated from soil and growing plants,
but it is also well adapted for growth in the intestinal tract of insects and mammals. From …

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is an insecticidal bacterium that has successfully been used as a
biopesticide for many years. It is usually referred to as a soil-dwelling organism, as a result …

It is expected that the increasing genetic information on Bacillus cereus in genome
databases will pave the way for investigating its evolution, ecology, and virulence, and …

Milk supports the growth and development of infants. An increasing number of mostly recent
studies have demonstrated that milk contains a hitherto undescribed component called …

Bacillus cereus is a food-borne pathogen and a frequent contaminant of food production
plants. The persistence of this pathogen in various environments results from the formation …

The discussion of host–parasite interactions, and of parasite virulence more specifically, has
so far, with a few exceptions, not focused much attention on the accumulating evidence that …

Bacillus anthracis is the cause of anthrax, and two large plasmids are essential for toxicity:
pXO1, which contains the toxin genes, and pXO2, which encodes a capsule. B. anthracis …