A survey of the occurrence of Bacillus anthracis in North American soils over two long-range transects and within post-Katrina New Orleans

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1464-1471

  Griffin, Dale W ^a   Petrosky, Terry ^a   Morman, Suzette A ^a   Luna, Vicki A ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS SP; BACILLUS SPECIES; COLONY FORMING UNITS; CU CONTENT; FLOOD EVENT; FLORIDA; GULF COAST; HURRICANE KATRINA; KATRINA; LOUISIANA; MANITOBA , CANADA; ME-XICO; MOIST SOIL; NEW ORLEANS; NORTH AMERICAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE RATES; SAMPLE SETS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL SAMPLE;

BACTERIOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; LANDFORMS; SOIL MOISTURE; SULFUR; ZINC;

SOIL SURVEYS;

BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; COLONY FOUNDING; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

CANADA; EL PASO; LOUISIANA; MANITOBA; NEW ORLEANS; NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS SP.;

EID: 67651177431     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2009.04.016     Document Type: Article

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