The Early Adoption of Microbes Over two thousand years ago, Hippocrates said that “death sits in the bowels.” Fermentation has been documented for several thousand years. The world’s oldest cheese was discovered on a 1615 BC mummy in the Taklamakan region of China; it was most likely a component of the food that was left…
What is Bacillus cereus? The genus Bacillus is taxonomically linked with the family Bacillaceae and B. cereus is the most common food pathogen related to the genus Bacillus. In 1887, Bacillus cereus was initially isolated. B. cereus is a gram-positive, motile rod- and spore-forming bacteria. In the Bacillus group, B. cereus was renowned as a…
B. cereus is the cause of about 500 confirmed foodborne illness cases annually in EU countries. B. cereus is known as an opportunistic pathogen and is generally found in soil. B. cereus is a gram-positive, motile rod- and spore-forming bacteria. It is commonly found in the environment and milk in the form of aerobic spore-forming…
