Application of Latex Agglutination and Immune Chromatography Methods for Rapid Identification of <i>Bacillus anthracis</i> Cultures in the Epidemiological Investigation of Outbreaks

Abstract

Approbation of the experimental series of latex agglutination and immune chromatography test-systems was carried out for identification of Bacillus anthracis spores and vegetative cells respectively. These test-systems are suitable for rapid diagnostics of anthrax and have a number of advantages over already-existing commercial tests.

Keywords

• anthrax
• rapid tests
• latex agglutination
• immune chromatography