Bacillus cereus

Source of isolates submitted to the Bacillus cereus database
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The MLST scheme hosted in this database was developed by Martin Maiden, Gus Priest and Maggie Barker. It is described in Priest et al. 2004 J Bacteriol 186:7959-7970.

The B. anthracis cgMLST scheme was developed by Mostafa Abdel-Glil and colleagues and is described in Abdel-Glil et al. 2021 J Clin Microbiol, 59:e0288920.

The B. cereus sensu lato group cgMLST scheme was developed by Nicolas Tourasse and colleagues at INSERM Bordeaux and the University of Oslo and is described in Tourasse et al. 2023 Res Microbiol 104050.

MLST scheme and isolate database curated by jzk303atpsu.edu (Jasna Kovac).

The preferred citation for this website is:

Jolley et al. Wellcome Open Res 2018, 3:124 [version 1; referees: 2 approved].

Typing

The typing database contains nomenclature - allele definitions that provide an identifier for every unique allele sequence, and MLST profiles that index each unique combination of alleles with a sequence type (ST).

Allele sequences:
1,192,433
Last updated:
2025-07-14

Isolate collection

The isolate database consists of isolate records containing provenance and phenotype information linked to molecular typing information. These records may also include genome assemblies.

Isolates:
6,672
Last updated:
2025-06-03

Genome collection

A subset of records within the isolate database may contain genomes assemblies. You can access these from the isolate database by filtering on sequence bin size in a query.

Genomes:
3,512
Last updated:
2025-05-20