Accurate, rapid and high-throughput detection of strain-specific polymorphisms in Bacillus anthracis and Yersinia pestis by next-generation sequencing

Investigative Genetics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Cummings, Craig A ^a   Bormann Chung, Christina A ^a   Fang, Rixun ^a   Barker, Melissa ^a   Brzoska, Pius ^a   Williamson, Phillip C ^b   Beaudry, Jodi ^c   Matthews, Molly ^c   Schupp, James ^c   Wagner, David M ^c   Birdsell, Dawn ^c   Vogler, Amy J ^c   Furtado, Manohar R ^a   Keim, Paul ^c,d   Budowle, Bruce ^b  

^a Life Technologies Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BOLIVIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TANDEM REPEAT; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 79953868820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20412223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-2223-1-5     Document Type: Article

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