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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 21.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Emerg Med. 2008 Apr;15(4):388–392. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00061.x

Table 2A.

Averaged Limits of Detection Based on Serially Diluted DNA Extracted from Category A Bacterial Biothreat Agents Using Either UniProbe or Biothreat-specific Probes

Organism Genomic Equivalents
UniProbe Biothreat-specific
B. anthracis* 3 1
Y. pestis (P14) 3 1
F. tularensis (LVSB) 8 6

Genomic equivalents = (weight sample molecular weight of genome) × Avogadro’s number.

LVSB = live vaccine strain type B; P14 = depigmented and virulence plasmid pCD1-negative.

*

Inactivated nonpathogenic strain.