Bacillus Subtilis and Its Closest Relatives
Subtitle: From Genes to Cells
Publisher: ASM Press
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 629
ISBN-13: 9781555812058
Subjects: Bacteriology; Biochemistry; Microbiology; Microorganisms; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Bacteriology; Bacillus subtilis; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology; Bacterial Genetics
First sentence: Interest in the genus Bacillus can be traced back to Louis Pasteur, who used heat-attenuated Bacillus anthracis as the first antibacterial vaccine, and Robert Koch, who used anthrax as the test case for development of postulates relating infectious agents and specific diseases.