Study generates Soviet anthrax pathogen genome from autopsy specimens

Thursday, September 8, 2016 - 05:01 in Biology & Nature

A new study used deep DNA sequencing methods to generate the anthrax genome sequence from the victims of the 1979 anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk, Russia, when it was part of the USSR.

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