Pyrosequencing Bacillus anthracis

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1527-1531

  Wahab, Tara ^a   Hjalmarsson, Sandra ^a   Wollin, Ralfh ^a   Engstrand, Lars ^a  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; CHROMOSOME MARKER; ENZYME MECHANISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PLASMID XO1; PLASMID XO2; PYROSEQUENCING; RPOB GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 25644436411     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1110.041316     Document Type: Article

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