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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Genomics. 2011 Apr 5;98(1):26–39. doi: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2011.03.008

Table 1.

Strains used in the analysis.

Species Strain Alternative Designations Year of isolation Geographic Origin Source Type of infection (human isolates) MLST sequence type (ST)& Plasmid Profile Main phylogenetic cluster$
B. cereus AH259* 6A1 in BGSC Not typed II
B. cereus AH607* Norway Dairy 17 I
B. cereus AH535* 1994 Norway Soil (strawberry field) 77 III
B. cereus AH819* 1995 Norway Human Periodontitis 40 I
B. cereus AH812* 1995 Norway Human Periodontitis 38 I
B. cereus AH1123* France Human Blood 45 I
B.weihenstephanensis AH1143* Germany Dairy (milk) 68 III
B. cereus ATCC 10987* 1930 Canada Spoiled cheese 2 I
B. cereus ATCC 14579* 1916 USA Air, farmhouse 33 II
B. cereus AH404 Finland Dairy Not typed III
B. cereus AH405 Norway Dairy Not typed II
B. cereus AH407 Finland Dairy 9 III
B. cereus AH533 1993 Norway Soil (strawberry field) Not typed IV§
B. cereus AH540 1993 Norway Soil Not typed I
B. cereus AH557 1993 Norway Soil Not typed I
B. cereus AH564 1993 Norway Soil Not typed I
B. cereus AH568 1993 Norway Soil Not typed I
B. cereus AH597 Norway Dairy Not typed III
B. cereus AH598 Norway Dairy Not typed I
B. cereus AH599 Norway Dairy Not typed I
B. cereus AH601 Norway Dairy Not typed II
B. cereus AH602 Norway Dairy Not typed III
B. cereus AH603 Norway Dairy Not typed III
B. cereus AH604 Norway Dairy Not typed I
B. cereus AH608 Norway Dairy Not typed I
B. cereus AH648 1994 Norway Soil Not typed III
B. cereus AH810 1994 Norway Human Periodontitis 36 I
B. cereus AH811 1995 Brazil Human Periodontitis 37 II
B. cereus AH813 1995 Brazil Human Periodontitis 39 I
B. cereus AH814 1995 Norway Human Periodontitis 84 II
B. cereus AH815 1995 Norway Human Periodontitis 85 II
B. cereus AH816 1995 Norway Human Periodontitis 39 pPER272 I
B. cereus AH817 1995 Norway Human Periodontitis 3 pPER272 I
B. cereus AH818 1995 Brazil Human Periodontitis 39 I
B. cereus AH820 1995 Norway Human Periodontitis 39 I
B. cereus AH823 1996 Norway Human Periodontitis 40 I
B. cereus AH825 1996 Norway Human Periodontitis 40 I
B. cereus AH826 1996 Norway Human Periodontitis 40 I
B. cereus AH827 1996 Norway Human Periodontitis 40 I
B. cereus AH828 1996 Norway Human Periodontitis 40 I
B. cereus AH830 1995 Norway Human Periodontitis 41 I
B. cereus AH831 1996 Norway Human Periodontitis 42 I
B. anthracis Ames 1981 USA Cow 1 pXO+ /pXO2+ I
B. anthracis Australia94 A0039 1994 Australia Cattle 1 pXO+ /pXO2+ I
B. anthracis Tsiankovskii-I Former USSR Livestock vaccine strain 1 pXO+ /pXO2+ I
B. anthracis Vollum A4088 1935 UK Cow 1 pXO+ /pXO2+ I
B. anthracis Sterne 34F2 1937 South Africa Cow (animal vaccine strain) 1 pXO+ /pXO2- I
B. anthracis Pasteur 1 pXO- /pXO2+ I
*

Strains used for gene discovery

&

According to the optimized scheme of Tourasse, Helgason et al., (2006)

$

As determined by MLST, MLEE, and/or AFLP typing data (HyperCAT database, http://mlstoslo.uio.no)