Detection of the picolinic acid biomarker in bacillus spores using a potentially field-portable pyrolysis-gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry system

Field Analytical Chemistry and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-59

  Peter Snyder, A ^a   Thornton, Sidney N ^b   Dworzanski, Jacek P ^b   Meuzelaar, Henk L C ^b  

^a U S ARMY   (United States)

^b Center for Micro Analysis and Reaction Chemistry   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Dipicolinic acid; Field instrumentation; Gas chromatography; Ion mobility spectrometry; Pyrolysis; Spores

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002535068     PISSN: 1086900X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6521(1996)1:1<49::aid-fact7>3.3.co;2-r     Document Type: Article

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