TABLE 6.

Differentiation of B. cereus, B. thuringiensis, B. anthracis, and B. mycoides wild strains by using gyrB PCR primers

Bacterium	Sourcea	No. of strains tested	% of strains that were identified by PCR as:
			B. cereusb	B. thurin-giensisc	B. an-thracisd
B. cereus	IFO	10	100
B. cereus	IAM	5	100
B. cereus	Foode	50	94	4	2
B. cereus	Environmentf	20	70		30
B. thuringiensis	Environmente	10	80	20
B. mycoides	ATCC	9	11.1

^aFor abbreviation explanations, see Table 5. 

^bBC1 and BC2r primers were used. 

^cBT1 and BT2r primers were used. 

^dBA1 and BA2r primers were used. 

^eObtained from Nagoya Public Health Research Institute, Nagoya, Japan. 

^fObtained from Mie University, Nagoya, Japan.