Volume 11, Number 10—October 2005
Dispatch
Detecting Biological Warfare Agents
Table
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 |