Field-based PCR for rapid diagnosis of cutaneous anthrax in the deployed setting using the Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System

Military Medicine

Volumn 178, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 944-947

  Pace, Sarah ^a   Steigelman, Maj Daniel ^b   Norton, Scott A ^c   Krivda, Stephen ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; EQUIPMENT; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLDIER; WAR; DEVICES; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

ADOLESCENT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; ANTHRAX; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84881497870     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-13-00062     Document Type: Article

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