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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2017-04-01
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Series: | mBio |
Online Access: | http://mbio.asm.org/cgi/content/full/8/2/e00440-17 |