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Volume 10, Number 4—April 2004
Dispatch

Ruling Out Bacillus anthracis

Joseph Papaparaskevas*, Dimitra P. Houhoula*, Maria Papadimitriou*, Georgios Saroglou†, Nicholas J. Legakis*, and Loukia Zerva*Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece; †Hellenic Center for Infectious Diseases Control, Ministry of Health, Athens, Greece

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Table

Numbers (%) of environmental Bacillus spp. isolates exhibiting various types of hemolysis on human, sheep, and horse blood agar plates at 24 and 48 hours of incubation

Incubation time
24 h 48 h
Type of hemolysis Humana Sheepa Horsea Human Sheep Horse
No (%) No (%) No (%) No (%) No (%) No (%)
α 1 (1.4) 5 (6.9) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 1 (1.4)
γ 10 (13.9) 16 (22.3) 10 (13.9) 4 (5.6) 9 (12.5) 2 (2.8)
Total β 61 (84.7) 51 (70.8) 62 (86.1) 68 (94.4) 63 (87.5) 69 (95.8)
Strong β 55 (76.4) 41 (56.9) 55 (76.4) 65 (90.3) 55 (76.4) 66 (91.6)
Weak β 6 (8.3) 10 (13.9) 7 (9.7) 3 (4.1) 8 (11.1) 3 (4.2)
Total 72 72 72 72 72 72

aHuman, sheep and horse refer to the respective blood agars.

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