Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2011 Aug 15;77(16):5818-21.
doi: 10.1128/AEM.00074-11. Epub 2011 Jun 24.

Bovine Bacillus anthracis in Cameroon

Paola Pilo  1 , Alexandra Rossano, Hamadou Bamamga, Souley Abdoulkadiri, Vincent Perreten, Joachim Frey
Affiliations

Bovine Bacillus anthracis in Cameroon

Paola Pilo et al. Appl Environ Microbiol. .

Abstract

Bovine Bacillus anthracis isolates from Cameroon were genetically characterized. They showed a strong homogeneity, and they belong, together with strains from Chad, to cluster Aβ, which appears to be predominant in western Africa. However, one strain that belongs to a newly defined clade (D) and cluster (D1) is penicillin resistant and shows certain phenotypes typical of Bacillus cereus.

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Dendrogram based on eight VNTR markers of B. anthracis strains from Cameroon (this work) and characteristic strains representing all clades and major clusters as reported previously (6, 12, 15). Strains from western and central Africa are boxed. The dendrogram was generated by clustering using the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic means. The scale bar indicates genetic distance. The genetic distance is presented as the absolute number of differences in marker alleles among genotypes.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute 2006. Methods for dilution antimicrobial susceptibility tests for bacteria that grow aerobically, 7th ed, vol. 26, no. 2. Approved standard M7-A7. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, Wayne, PA
    1. Coker P. R., et al. 2003. Bacillus anthracis virulence in guinea pigs vaccinated with anthrax vaccine adsorbed is linked to plasmid quantities and clonality. J. Clin. Microbiol. 41:1212–1218 - PMC - PubMed
    1. Daffonchio D., Cherif A., Borin S. 2000. Homoduplex and heteroduplex polymorphisms of the amplified ribosomal 16S–23S internal transcribed spacers describe genetic relationships in the “Bacillus cereus group.” Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 66:5460–5468 - PMC - PubMed
    1. Felsenstein J. 2005. PHYLIP (Phylogeny Inference Package) version 3.6. Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
    1. Keim P., et al. 2009. The genome and variation of Bacillus anthracis. Mol. Aspects Med. 30:397–405 - PMC - PubMed

Publication types

MeSH terms

Substances

Associated data