Article
Molecular diversity in Bacillus anthracis.
Journal of applied microbiology - 1 Aug 1999
Keim P, Klevytska A M, Price L B, Schupp J M, Zinser G, Smith K L, Hugh-Jones M E, Okinaka R, Hill K K, Jackson P J
Abstract excerpt
Molecular typing of Bacillus anthracis has been extremely difficult due to the lack of polymorphic DNA markers. We have identified nine novel variable number tandemly repeated loci from previously known amplified fragment length polymorphism markers or from the DNA sequence. In combination with the previously known vrrA locus, these markers provide discrimination power to genetically characterize B. anthracis...
Topics
- Animals
- Anthrax
- Bacillus anthracis
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Bacterial
- Humans
- Polymorphism, Genetic
