Swab protocol for rapid laboratory diagnosis of cutaneous anthrax

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3960-3967

  Dauphin, Leslie A ^a   Marston, Chung K ^a   Bhullar, Vinod ^a   Baker, Daniel ^a   Rahman, Mahmudur ^b   Hossain, M Jahangir ^c   Chakraborty, Apurba ^c   Khan, Salah Uddin ^c   Hoffmaster, Alex R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research IEDCR   (Bangladesh)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA PURIFICATION; EXTRACTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN ANTHRAX; SWAB EXTRACTION TUBE SYSTEM; ULTRASOUND; VALIDATION PROCESS; VORTEX;

ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS;

EID: 84869216614     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02076-12     Document Type: Article

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