Ruling out Bacillus anthracis.(Dispatches) From: Emerging Infectious Diseases | Date: April 1, 2004| Author: Houhoula, Dimitra P.; Legakis, Nicholas J.; Papadimitriou, Maria; Papaparaskevas, Joseph; Saroglou, Georgios; Zerva, Loukia | COPYRIGHT 2004 U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Optimization of methods for ruling out Bacillus anthracis leads to increased yields, faster turnaround times, and a lighter workload. We used 72 environmental non-B. anthracis bacilli to validate methods for ruling out B. anthracis. Most effective were the use of horse blood agar, motility testing after isolates had a 2-h incubation in trypticase soy broth, and screening isolates with a B. anthracis-selective agar.

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