Historical distribution and molecular diversity of bacillus anthracis, Kazakhstan

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 789-796

  Aikembayev, Alim M ^a,h   Lukhnova, Larissa ^a   Temiraliyeva, Gulnara ^a   Meka Mechenko, Tatyana ^a   Pazylov, Yerlan ^a   Zakaryan, Sarkis ^a   Denissov, Georgiy ^a   Ryan Easterday, W ^b   Van Ert, Matthew N ^c,i   Keim, Paul ^b,d   Francesconi, Stephen C ^e   Blackburn, Jason K ^f,j   Hugh Jones, Martin ^g   Hadfield, Ted ^c  

^a Masgut Aikimbayev National Scientific Center for Especially Dangerous Infections of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MIDWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h VEN Consulting LLC ^*  (Kazakhstan)

ⁱ VEN Consulting   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EPIDEMIC; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; KAZAKHSTAN; NONHUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN BANKS; CAMELS; CATTLE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOGS; FOXES; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; GOATS; HORSES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAZAKHSTAN; MINK; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SHEEP; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77951228495     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1605.091427     Document Type: Article

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