Molecular diversity in Bacillus anthracis
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- 1 August 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Applied Microbiology
- Vol. 87 (2) , 215-217
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2672.1999.00873.x
Abstract
Molecular typing of Bacillus anthracis has been extremely difficult due to the lack of polymorphic DNA markers. We have identified nine novel variable number tandemly repeated loci from previously kn...Keywords
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