Novel sample preparation method for safe and rapid detection of Bacillus anthracis spores in environmental powders and nasal swabsVicki A Luna
Center for Biological Defense, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33612, USA
J Clin Microbiol 41:1252-5. 2003
..We wanted to develop a safe, rapid method of sample preparation that provided safe DNA for the detection of spores in environmental and clinical specimens. Our method reproducibly detects B. anthracis in samples containing <10 spores...
Bacillus acidiceler sp. nov., isolated from a forensic specimen, containing Bacillus anthracis pX02 genesK Kealy Peak
USF Center for Biological Defense, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, 3602 Spectrum Blvd, Tampa, FL 33612 9401, USA
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57:2031-6. 2007
..9 relative to that at pH 7.1. Therefore, it is proposed that strain CBD 119(T) represents a novel species, Bacillus acidiceler sp. nov. The type strain is strain CBD 119(T) (=NRRL B-41736(T)=DSM 18954(T))...
Improvement of a selective media for the isolation of B. anthracis from soilsVicki A Luna
Center for Biological Defense, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, United States
J Microbiol Methods 79:301-6. 2009
..anthracis and will facilitate agricultural, environmental and forensic investigations of B. anthracis isolates...
- Two-year study evaluating the potential loss of methicillin resistance in a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus culture collection
William Veguilla
Center for Biological Defense, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, 3602 Spectrum Blvd, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
J Clin Microbiol 46:3494-7. 2008
..There were no significant declines in the methicillin-resistant populations with either method over a two-year period...
- Bacillus anthracis virulent plasmid pX02 genes found in large plasmids of two other Bacillus species
Vicki A Luna
Center for Biological Defense, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, 3602 Spectrum Blvd, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
J Clin Microbiol 44:2367-77. 2006
..anthracis alerts us to the necessity of identifying additional sequences that will signal the presence of B. anthracis in clinical, forensic, and environmental samples...
- Susceptibility of Bacillus anthracis, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus mycoides, Bacillus pseudomycoides and Bacillus thuringiensis to 24 antimicrobials using Sensititre automated microbroth dilution and Etest agar gradient diffusion methods
Vicki A Luna
Center for Biological Defense, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, 3602 Spectrum Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33612, USA
J Antimicrob Chemother 60:555-67. 2007
..To examine susceptibilities of Bacillus anthracis and related species to 24 antimicrobials using and concurrently comparing two methods...
- Bacillus Strains Most Closely Related to Bacillus nealsonii Are Not Effectively Circumscribed within the Taxonomic Species Definition
K Kealy Peak
USF Center for Biological Defense, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, 3602 Spectrum Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33612 9401, USA
Int J Microbiol 2011:673136. 2011
..Coherent genomic groups were not however supported by similarly organized phenotypic clusters. Therefore, the strains were not effectively circumscribed within the taxonomic species definition...
- Use of two selective media and a broth motility test can aid in identification or exclusion of Bacillus anthracis
Vicki A Luna
Center for Biological Defense, University of South Florida, Tampa, 33612, USA
J Clin Microbiol 43:4336-41. 2005
..anthracis before expensive molecular and antibody-based tests are performed. By doing so, costs could be reduced and analysis time shortened...
- Fatal necrotizing pneumonia due to a Panton-Valentine leukocidin positive community-associated methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus and Influenza co-infection: a case report
Jill C Roberts
Center for Biological Defense, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa Florida, USA
Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob 7:5. 2008
..We describe a fatal case of necrotizing pneumonia in a patient co-infected with Influenza B and a community-associated, PVL-positive methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA)...
