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Frequency of acrystalliferous spore-forming bacteria possessing flagellar antigens of Bacillus thuringiensis
✍ Scribed by Dr. M. Ohba; K. Aizawa
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 229 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0233-111X
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✦ Synopsis
Flagellar (H) antigens of 189 acrystalliferous spore-forming bacteria, referable to Bacillus cereus, isolated from soils and silkworm litters of Japan, were analyzed by using K antisera against Bacillus thuringiensis H serotypes 1-20. These isolates proved to share common H antigens a t a very high frequency of 29.6% (56/189) with the known 16 H serotypes of B. thuringie~rsk. This indicates that, in natural environments, B. cereus possessing B. thuringiensis H antigens is diutributed more widely than crystalliferous B. thuringiensis.