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
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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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author Antwerpen, M. H.
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Redmond, C.
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description 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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spelling pubmed-54052322017-05-01 Unexpected Relations of Historical Anthrax Strain Antwerpen, M. H. Sahl, J. W. Birdsell, D. Pearson, T. Pearce, M. J. Redmond, C. Meyer, H. Keim, P. S. mBio Observation 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. American Society for Microbiology 2017-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5405232/ /pubmed/28442608 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00440-17 Text en Copyright © 2017 Antwerpen et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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