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Science 30 November 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5548, pp. 1810 - 1812
DOI: 10.1126/science.294.5548.1810
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ANTHRAX:
Taking Anthrax's Genetic Fingerprints

Martin Enserink

FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA, AND BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA--Armed with a vast collection of strains and a refined DNA fingerprinting system, a research team in Arizona may help solve who's behind the anthrax attacks--and nail other bioterrorists in the future. This special news package looks behind the scenes at one of the labs that is helping with the anthrax investigation; a second story looks at what doctors and researchers have learned from the new inhalational anthrax patients. Sidebars discuss efforts to sequence Bacillus anthracis, the organism that causes anthrax, and whether anthrax DNA evidence would hold up in a court of law.

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
DNA Fingerprinting of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica Serovar Typhimurium with Emphasis on Phage Type DT104 Based on Variable Number of Tandem Repeat Loci.
B.-A. Lindstedt, E. Heir, E. Gjernes, and G. Kapperud (2003)
J. Clin. Microbiol. 41, 1469-1479
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