Anthrax molecular epidemiology and forensics: Using the appropriate marker for different evolutionary scales

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-213

  Keim, Paul ^a   Van Ert, Matthew N ^a   Pearson, Talima ^a   Vogler, Amy J ^a   Huynh, Lynn Y ^a   Wagner, David M ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthrax; Bacillus anthracis; Bioterrorism; Canonical SNPs; canSNPs; Microbial forensics; MLVA; PHRANA; SNPs; SNR

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

ACCURACY; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EVOLUTION; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BIOTERRORISM; EPIDEMIOLOGY, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION; FORENSIC SCIENCES; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS;

EID: 4444308959     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2004.02.005     Document Type: Review

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