Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2005)

Detecting Biological Warfare Agents

  • Linan Song,
  • Soohyoun Ahn,
  • David R. Walt

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1110.050269
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 10
pp. 1629 – 1632

Abstract

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We developed a fiber-optic, microsphere-based, high-density array composed of 18 species-specific probe microsensors to identify biological warfare agents. We simultaneously identified multiple biological warfare agents in environmental samples by looking at specific probe responses after hybridization and response patterns of the multiplexed array.

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