Bacillus cereus sensu lato, the species group comprising Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus
thuringiensis and B. cereus (sensu stricto), has previously been scrutinized regarding …

There is growing interest in research and development to develop novel tools to study,
detect, and characterize microbes and their communities in industrial environments …

Ba. cil'lus. NL masc. n. Bacillus a rodlet. Firmicutes/“Bacilli”/Bacillales/Bacillaceae/Bacillus
Cells rod‐shaped, straight or slightly curved, occurring singly and in pairs, some in chains …

In the present study, three full-scale biogas plants (BGP) were investigated for the
concentration of heavy metals, organic pollutants, pesticides and the pathogenic bacteria …

Six Bacillus strains were isolated from different honey sources as levansucrase producers.
The isolates were identified as Bacillus sp. based on both phenotypic and molecular …

Phenanthrene-metabolizing soil microbial communities were characterized by examining
mineralization of [14C] phenanthrene, by most-probable-number (MPN) counting, by 16S …

Bacillus represents microbes of high economic, medical and biodefense importance.
Bacillus strain identification based on 16S rRNA sequence analyses is invariably limited to …

A group-specific primer pair was designed to amplify the 16S rRNA gene of representative
reference strains from environmentally sourced, mesophilic aerobic spore-forming Bacillus …

Spore formation is a sophisticated mechanism by which some bacteria survive conditions of
stress and starvation by producing a multilayered protective capsule enclosing their …

A highly sensitive real-time PCR (qPCR) procedure, targeting the phosphatidylcholine-
specific phospholipase C gene (pc-plc), was developed for specific detection and …