Large-scale screening of nasal swabs for Bacillus anthracis: Descriptive summary and discussion of the National Institutes of Health's experience

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 3012-3016

  Kiratisin, Pattarachai ^a   Fukuda, Caroline D ^a   Wong, Alexandra ^a   Stock, Frida ^a   Preuss, Jeanne C ^a   Ediger, Laura ^a   Brahmbhatt, Trupti N ^a   Fischer, Steven H ^a   Fedorko, Daniel P ^a   Witebsky, Frank G ^a   Gill, Vee J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; NOSE SMEAR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE;

ANTHRAX; BACILLUS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BIOTERRORISM; CULTURE MEDIA; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; LABORATORIES; MASS SCREENING; NASAL MUCOSA; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPORES, BACTERIAL; UNITED STATES;

ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACILLUS SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036702371     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.40.8.3012-3016.2002     Document Type: Article

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