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Title: Ten Genome Sequences of Human and Livestock Isolates of Bacillus anthracis from the Country of Georgia

Journal Article · · Genome Announcements
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  1. National Center for Disease Control & Public Health (NCDC), Tbilisi (Georgia); Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State Univ., Tbilisi (Georgia)
  2. National Center for Disease Control & Public Health (NCDC), Tbilisi (Georgia); Georgian American Univ., Tbilisi (Georgia)
  3. National Center for Disease Control & Public Health (NCDC), Tbilisi (Georgia)
  4. U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Georgia, Tbilisi (Georgia); Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD (United States)
  5. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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Bacillus anthracis causes the acute fatal disease anthrax, is a proven biological weapon, and is endemic in Georgia, where human and animal cases are reported annually. Furthermore, we present whole-genome sequences of 10 historical B. anthracis strains from Georgia.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA); USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1414143
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-17-21885; TRN: US1800666
Journal Information:
Genome Announcements, Vol. 5, Issue 19; ISSN 2169-8287
Publisher:
American Society for MicrobiologyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (8)

Human Cutaneous Anthrax, Georgia 2010–2012 journal February 2014
Toward an Online Repository of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for (Meta)genomic Annotation journal June 2008
Evidence of Local Persistence of Human Anthrax in the Country of Georgia Associated with Environmental and Anthropogenic Factors journal September 2013
Phylogeography of Bacillus anthracis in the Country of Georgia Shows Evidence of Population Structuring and Is Dissimilar to Other Regional Genotypes journal July 2014
Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Analysis Reveals Genetic Relationships within Bacillus anthracis journal May 2000
Enabling the democratization of the genomics revolution with a fully integrated web-based bioinformatics platform journal November 2016
Genome Differences That Distinguish Bacillus anthracis from Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis journal May 2003
Global Genetic Population Structure of Bacillus anthracis journal May 2007

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The identification of novel single nucleotide polymorphisms to assist in mapping the spread of Bacillus anthracis across the Southern Caucasus journal July 2018

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