Anticorps Bacillus anthracis toxin binding protein (7825): sc-58090

The genus Bacillus consists of aerobic, Gram-positive, spore-forming, rod-shaped bacterium. Bacillus anthracis causes anthrax, an acute infectious disease of cattle, sheep, goats, camels, antelopes and other herbivores that is highly lethal in some forms. Infection can occur in humans when exposed to infected animals or tissue from infected animals via three routes: cutaneous, inhalation and intestinal. B. anthracis spores persist (as spores) in the soil for many years as they are resistant to heat, cold, radiation, desiccation, and disinfectants. In vivo, B. anthracis produces a polypeptide (polyglutamic acid) capsule that protects it from phagocytosis. The virulence factors of B. anthracis are its capsule and three component toxin, both encoded on plasmids.