Unexpected Relations of Historical Anthrax Strain

In 1998, it was claimed that an 80-year-old glass tube intentionally filled with Bacillus anthracis and embedded in a sugar lump as a WWI biological weapon still contained viable spores. Today, genome sequencing of three colonies isolated in 1998 and subjected to phylogenetic analysis surprisingly i...

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Autores principales: Antwerpen, M. H., Sahl, J. W., Birdsell, D., Pearson, T., Pearce, M. J., Redmond, C., Meyer, H., Keim, P. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2017
Materias:
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5405232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28442608
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00440-17
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Sumario:In 1998, it was claimed that an 80-year-old glass tube intentionally filled with Bacillus anthracis and embedded in a sugar lump as a WWI biological weapon still contained viable spores. Today, genome sequencing of three colonies isolated in 1998 and subjected to phylogenetic analysis surprisingly identified a well-known B. anthracis reference strain isolated in the United States in 1981, pointing to accidental laboratory contamination.

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