Publications
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| large-scale screening of nasal swabs for bacillus anthracis: descriptive summary and discussion of the national institutes of health's experience. | in october 2001, a letter containing a large number of anthrax spores was sent through the brentwood post office in washington, d.c., to a united states senate office on capitol hill, resulting in contamination in both places. several thousand people who worked at these sites were screened for spore exposure by collecting nasal swab samples. we describe here a screening protocol which we, as a level a laboratory, used on very short notice to process a large number of specimens (3,936 swabs) in o ... | 2002 | 12149367 |