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Discrimination between biothreat agents and 'near neighbor' species using a resequencing array.
FEMS immunology and medical microbiology - 1 Dec 2008
Taitt Chris R, Malanoski Anthony P, Lin Baochuan, Stenger David A, Ligler Frances S, Kusterbeck Anne W, Anderson George P, Harmon Sue E, Shriver-Lake Lisa C, Pollack Steven K, Lennon Denise M, Lobo-Menendez Fe, Wang Zheng, Schnur Joel M
Abstract excerpt
Timely identification of biothreat organisms from large numbers of clinical or environmental samples in potential outbreak or attack scenario is critical for effective diagnosis and treatment. This study aims to evaluate the potential of resequencing arrays for this purpose. Albeit suboptimal, this report demonstrated that respiratory pathogen microarray version 1 can identify Bacillus anthracis, Francisella...
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