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Bacillus anthracis is the pathogen that causes anthrax Originally known as an important animal pathogen, it was the first bacterium to be used for the preparation of a vaccine based on attenuated bacteria by Louis Pasteur in 1881.
It is similar to Bacillus cereus, Bacillus subtilis, and Bacillus thuringiensis in cellular size, morphology, and spore formation (7). Bacillus anthracis is an important organism to study genome sequence because it's used as a biological weapon (1).any Bacillus species play an important role in degradation of biopolymers (such as starch and protein) and carbon and nitrogen cycles (14). It is found that Bacillus anthracis organisms are capable of forming biofilms, which are resistant to a broad variety of antibiotics. Biofilms are the cause of many disease.