Virulence signatures: Microarray-based approaches to discovery and analysis

Biosensors and Bioelectronics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 706-718

  Pannucci, James ^a   Cai, Hong ^a   Pardington, Paige E ^a   Williams, Erin ^a   Okinaka, Richard T ^a   Kuske, Cheryl R ^a   Cary, Robert B ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus anthracis; Biothreat; Detection; Gene expression; Pathogenesis microarray; Polymorphism; Virulence

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIOSENSORS; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BIOTHREAT AGENTS; FORENSIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SIGNATURE; MICROARRAYS;

VIRUSES;

NUCLEIC ACID; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VIRULENCE;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS;

EID: 7444232101     PISSN: 09565663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2004.04.005     Document Type: Article

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