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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Papaparaskevas, Joseph ; Houhoula, Dimitra P. ; Papadimitriou, Maria ; Saroglou, Georgios ; Legakis, Nicholas J. ; ... More +
Papaparaskevas, Joseph ; Houhoula, Dimitra P. ; Papadimitriou, Maria ; Saroglou, Georgios ; Legakis, Nicholas J. ; Zerva, Loukia Less -
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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.
Subject:
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Animals
Bacillus Anthracis
Bioterrorism
Culture Media
Dispatch
Hemolysis
Humans
Motility
PCR
PLET Agar
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Retrospective Studies
Bioterrorism
Hemolysis

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 10(4):732-735.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:63330a066cf7c0e7aca645a537fd73fb7a4037c462eadfb6882c1400004a3af3
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