Bacillus cereus
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bacillus-cereus-206-1344357
title:
Bacillus cereus
text:
Bacillus cereus is a Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium commonly found in soil, food, and marine sponges. The specific name, cereus, meaning "waxy" in Latin, refers to the appearance of colonies grown on blood agar. Some strains are harmful to humans and cause foodborne illness due to their spore-forming nature, while other strains can be beneficial as probiotics for animals, and even exhibit mutualism with certain plants. B. cereus bacteria may be aerobes or facultative anaerobes, and like othe
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description:
Species of bacterium
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_cereus
date created:
2002-02-25T15:51:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T17:12:09Z
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