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Molecular approaches to identify and differentiate Bacillus anthracis from phenotypically similar Bacillus species isolates.
BMC microbiology - 3 Mar 2006
Marston Chung K, Gee Jay E, Popovic Tanja, Hoffmaster Alex R
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BACKGROUND: Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus cereus can usually be distinguished by standard microbiological methods (e.g., motility, hemolysis, penicillin susceptibility and susceptibility to gamma phage) and PCR. However, we have identified 23 Bacillus spp. isolates that gave discrepant results when assayed by standard microbiological methods and PCR. We used multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis...
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