Ruling Out Bacillus anthracis

Papaparaskevas, Joseph; Houhoula, Dimitra P.; Papadimitriou, Maria; Saroglou, Georgios; Legakis, Nicholas J.; Zerva, Loukia

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Ruling Out Bacillus anthracis

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Apr 2004
By Papaparaskevas, Joseph ; Houhoula, Dimitra P. ; Papadimitriou, Maria ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Papaparaskevas, Joseph ; Houhoula, Dimitra P. ; Papadimitriou, Maria ; Saroglou, Georgios ; Legakis, Nicholas J. ; Zerva, Loukia
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Optimization of methods for ruling out Bacillus anthracis leads to increased yields, faster turnaround times, and a lighter workload. We used 72 environmental non-B. anthracis bacilli to validate methods for ruling out B. anthracis. Most effective were the use of horse blood agar, motility testing after isolates had a 2-h incubation in trypticase soy broth, and screening isolates with a B. anthracis-selective agar.
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Animals Bacillus Anthracis Bioterrorism Culture Media Dispatch Hemolysis Humans Motility Pcr Plet Agar Polymerase Chain Reaction Retrospective Studies
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Emerg Infect Dis. 10(4):732-735.
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Journal Article
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10
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4
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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