Ruling Out Bacillus anthracis

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 732-735

  Papaparaskevas, Joseph ^a   Houhoula, Dimitra P ^a   Papadimitriou, Maria ^a   Saroglou, Georgios ^b   Legakis, Nicholas J ^a   Zerva, Loukia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Ministry of Health   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; HORSE BLOOD AGAR; PLET AGAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MOTILITY TEST; BETA HEMOLYSIS; BLOOD; CAPC GENE; CULTURE MEDIUM; HEMOLYSIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PAGA GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TECHNIQUE; TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 1842536019     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1004.030544     Document Type: Article

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