Well, I am sure there are going to be a million news stories and blogs over the next few days about the anthrax letters. That is because of the recent death of someone who appears to have been the latest suspect in the anthrax mailings (see for example CNN Report: Anthrax suspect kills self as FBI closes in). (Also see the LA Times, which broke the story). I must say, after the disastrous handling of some of the previous suspects, I think we should reserve judgement on this case until some of the evidence is made public.
In the interest of helping out some of those interested in the science of studying the organism that causes anthrax I am posting here some links to fully open access articles on B. anthracis.
PLoS One papers
- Global Genetic Population Structure of Bacillus anthracis
- this one has some very nice figures that anyone can use such as this one
- Application of In Vivo Induced Antigen Technology (IVIAT) to Bacillus anthracis
- Genotyping of Bacillus cereus Strains by Microarray-Based Resequencing
- Complement C3d Conjugation to Anthrax Protective Antigen Promotes a Rapid, Sustained, and Protective Antibody Response
- Inhibition of Anthrax Lethal Toxin-Induced Cytolys …
- Anthrax Toxins Induce Shock in Rats by Depressed C …
PLoS biology Papers
Biomed Central Journals
- Bacillus anthracis secretome time course under host-simulated conditions and identification of immunogenic proteins
- Molecular approaches to identify and differentiate Bacillus anthracis from phenotypically similar Bacillus species isolates
- Microarray-based resequencing of multiple Bacillus anthracis isolates
- Identification of Bacillus anthracis specific chromosomal sequences by suppressive subtractive hybridization
- DNA sequence conservation between the Bacillus anthracis pXO2 plasmid and genomic sequence from closely related bacteria
- A tandem repeats database for bacterial genomes: application to the genotyping of Yersinia pestis and Bacillus anthracis
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