Molecular epidemiologic investigation of an anthrax outbreak among heroin users, Europe

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1307-1313

  Price, Erin P ^a,e   Seymour, Meagan L ^a   Sarovich, Derek S ^a,e   Latham, Jennie ^b   Wolken, Spenser R ^a   Mason, Joanne ^b   Vincent, Gemma ^b   Drees, Kevin P ^a   Beckstrom Sternberg, Stephen M ^a,d   Phillippy, Adam M ^c   Koren, Sergey ^c   Okinaka, Richard T ^a   Chung, Wai Kwan ^a   Schupp, James M ^a,d   Wagner, David M ^a   Vipond, Richard ^b   Foster, Jeffrey T ^a   Bergman, Nicholas H ^c   Burans, James ^c   Pearson, Talima ^a   Brooks, Tim ^b   Keim, And Paul ^a,d   more..

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center   (United States)

^d TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE;

ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HEROIN; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 84864482780     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1808.111343     Document Type: Article

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