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... Bio background, 25–26 Defense Meeting Presentations, 178 chronology of, 26, 30–31 Amerithrax investigations, 25–26 timeline of key events, 28–30t analytical techniques used on evidentiary timeline of scientific events in, 48–52t material, 57, 58–59t anthrax program, 66 collection and analysis of clinical and Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) , environmental samples and cross 56, 57, 66, 79, 81–84, 95 contamination, 60, 176–77 clinical and epidemiological samples, 60–62, 64 B crime scene environmental samples, Bacillus sp.
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... , 9 Chemical Biological Science Unit documents provided by, 161–79 (CBSU) , 71 declassified reports, 177 chemical analysis scientific conclusions and committee committee findings, 93–96 findings, 4–23t, 32–33 methods for, 81, 81t scientific investigations, 31–32 (see also See also specific topics Amerithrax investigations)
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... , 79, 86, 90 See also Institute of Genomic Research Leahy, Patrick, letter received by, 30, 68, 69, genotypes, 139, 139t 76–80, 88–92, 96, 109, 113–22 A1 and A3, 119, 172–73 powder on, 63f B and D, 119–20, 173–75 silicon content, 82–84, 85f, 87, 94, 95 development and application of assays for, lethal factor (LF) , 39 119–21 letter material, silicon and other elements in, E, 120–21, 175–76 80 genetic assays to test for the four, 130 elemental analysis, 81–84 mutation, in FBIR samples, 133–34, 133t, letter powder 134t Leahy, 62, 63f, 64 observed and expected distribution of New York Post, 62, 63f, 64 positive signatures for the four, 137, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
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... See Sverdlovsk outbreak amplified fragment length, 98 spatially resolved elemental analysis, 83–84 single nucleotide, 115–18 spo0A gene, 108–9 postal workers, 61 spo0F gene, 117 protective antigen (PA) , 39 spore preparation estimates of media volume required for, 77, 77t R and purification, 75–78 time needed for, 8 radiocarbon dating, 181–82 spores of B
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... , 89–90 USDOJ. See Department of Justice W water samples, stable isotope analysis of, 92
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