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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2018

A Standard Method To Inactivate Bacillus anthracis Spores to Sterility via Gamma Irradiation.

Christopher K Cote, Tony Buhr, Casey B Bernhards, Matthew D Bohmke, Alena M Calm, Josephine S Esteban-Trexler, Melissa Hunter, Sarah E Katoski, Neil Kennihan, Christopher P Klimko and 16 more

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

26 authors.

Christopher K CoteBacteriology Division, United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.
Tony BuhrNaval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Virginia, USA.
Casey B BernhardsUnited States Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA.
Matthew D BohmkeNaval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Virginia, USA.
Alena M CalmUnited States Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA.
Josephine S Esteban-TrexlerBacteriology Division, United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.
Melissa HunterBacteriology Division, United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.
Sarah E KatoskiUnited States Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA.
Neil KennihanNaval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Virginia, USA.
Christopher P KlimkoBacteriology Division, United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.
Jeremy A MillerBacteriology Division, United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.
Zachary A MinterNaval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Virginia, USA.
Jerry W PfarrUnited States Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA.
Amber M PrughUnited States Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA.
Avery V QuirkBacteriology Division, United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.
Bryan A RiversUnited States Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA.
April A SheaBacteriology Division, United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.
Jennifer L ShoeBacteriology Division, United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.
Todd M SicklerUnited States Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA.
Alice A YoungNaval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Virginia, USA.
David P FettererBiostatistics Division, United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.
Susan L WelkosBacteriology Division, United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.
Joel A BozueBacteriology Division, United States Army Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6959-8176
Derrell McPhersonNaval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Virginia, USA.
Augustus W FountainUnited States Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA.
Henry S GibbonsUnited States Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, USA henry.s.gibbons.civ@mail.mil.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In 2015, a laboratory of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) inadvertently shipped preparations of gamma-irradiated spores of

Indexed as

Gamma RaysBacillus anthracisMicrobial ViabilityMicrobiological TechniquesRetrospective StudiesSpores, BacterialSterilizationBacillus anthracisgamma irradiationinactivationselect agentsporesterility assurance levelsterilization

Identifiers

PMID29654186
PMCPMC5981071

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