Unexpected Relations of Historical Anthrax Strain

ABSTRACT 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 surpr...

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Main Authors: M. H. Antwerpen, J. W. Sahl, D. Birdsell, T. Pearson, M. J. Pearce, C. Redmond, H. Meyer, P. S. Keim
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/851fce70608342449ae681f98c989b2e
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