Molecular Subtyping of Bacillus anthracis and the 2001 Bioterrorism-Associated Anthrax Outbreak, United States

Molecular subtyping of Bacillus anthracis played an important role in differentiating and identifying anthrax strains during the 2001 bioterrorism-associated outbreak. Because B. anthracis has a low level of genetic variability, only a few subtyping methods, with varying reliability, exist. We initi...

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Principais autores:	Alex R. Hoffmaster, Collette C. Fitzgerald, Efrain Ribot, Leonard W. Mayer, Tanja Popovic
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002-10-01
Series:	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Assuntos:	B. anthracis multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) pagA subtyping United States
Acceso en liña:	https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/10/02-0394_article
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