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Volume 11, Number 10—October 2005

Dispatch

Detecting Biological Warfare Agents

Linan Song*, Soohyoun Ahn*, and David R. Walt*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA

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Detection limits of real samples determined with polymerase chain reaction followed by array detection

Organism DNA copies/mL
Bacillus anthracis 103
B. thuringiensis kurstaki 102
Vaccinia virus 102
Yersinia pestis 102
Francisella tularensis 103
Clostridium botulinum 103

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