Bacillus anthracis comparative genome analysis in support of the Amerithrax investigation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5027-5032

  Rasko, David A ^a   Worsham, Patricia L ^b   Abshire, Terry G ^b   Stanley, Scott T ^c,d   Bannan, Jason D ^d   Wilson, Mark R ^d,i   Langham, Richard J ^c   Decker, R Scott ^c   Jiang, Lingxia ^a,j   Read, Timothy D ^e   Phillippy, Adam M ^f   Salzberg, Steven L ^f   Pop, Mihai ^f   Van Ert, Matthew N ^g,h   Kenefic, Leo J ^a,g,h   Keim, Paul S ^g,h   Fraser Liggett, Claire M ^a   Ravel, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION   (United States)

^d Federal Bureau of Investigation   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j Canon Life Sciences Inc   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMERITHRAX; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPOROGENESIS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BIOTERRORISM; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FORENSIC SCIENCES; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MUTATION;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS STR. AMES;

EID: 79953172949     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1016657108     Document Type: Article

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