Capsules, Toxins and AtxA as Virulence Factors of Emerging Bacillus cereus Biovar anthracis

• Christophe Brézillon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christophe Brézillon, Michel Haustant, Susann Dupke

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Pathogénie des Toxi-Infections Bactériennes, Paris, France

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• Michel Haustant ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christophe Brézillon, Michel Haustant, Susann Dupke

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Pathogénie des Toxi-Infections Bactériennes, Paris, France

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• Susann Dupke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Christophe Brézillon, Michel Haustant, Susann Dupke

  Affiliation Robert Koch-Institut, Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens (ZBS 2), Berlin, Germany

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• Jean-Philippe Corre,

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Pathogénie des Toxi-Infections Bactériennes, Paris, France

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• Angelika Lander,

  Affiliation Robert Koch-Institut, Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens (ZBS 2), Berlin, Germany

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• Tatjana Franz,

  Affiliation Robert Koch-Institut, Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens (ZBS 2), Berlin, Germany

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• Marc Monot,

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Pathogenèse des bactéries anaérobies, Paris, France

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• Evelyne Couture-Tosi,

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Pathogénie des Toxi-Infections Bactériennes, Paris, France

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• Gregory Jouvion,

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Unité Histopathologie Humaine et Modèles Animaux, Paris, France

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• Fabian H. Leendertz,

  Affiliation Robert Koch-Institut, Epidemiology of Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms (P 3), Berlin, Germany

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• Roland Grunow,

  Affiliation Robert Koch-Institut, Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens (ZBS 2), Berlin, Germany

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• Michèle E. Mock,

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Pathogénie des Toxi-Infections Bactériennes, Paris, France

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• Silke R. Klee ,

  * E-mail: KleeS@rki.de (SRK); pierre.goossens@pasteur.fr (PLG)

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Robert Koch-Institut, Centre for Biological Threats and Special Pathogens (ZBS 2), Berlin, Germany

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• Pierre L. Goossens

  * E-mail: KleeS@rki.de (SRK); pierre.goossens@pasteur.fr (PLG)

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Institut Pasteur, Pathogénie des Toxi-Infections Bactériennes, Paris, France

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