It covers a variety of areas from forensic science, to microbiology, to epidemiology, to bioinformatics, and to legal issues. Microbial Forensics. N2 - Microbial Forensics describes the new and growing field of Microbial Forensics- the science that will help bring to justice criminals and terrorists who use biological material to cause harm. AB - Microbial Forensics describes the new and growing field of Microbial Forensics- the science that will help bring to justice criminals and terrorists who use biological material to cause harm.
Overview Fingerprint. Stabilizer and additives are used in the preparation of samples which may be critical that can guide about criminals. Location and time of year the sample was prepared can be identified by using incidental bio-contaminants such as environmental pollen and fungi which play a crucial role.
The occurrence of strains of Bacteria founded at one place or hardly at another place to geolocate the place of preparation detection of the subsidiary bacteria synchronized in a weaponized sample.
Rapid detection methods such as immunoassays are especially applicable to field-deployable assay. It is important to consider other tools besides solely DNA — based assay [5]. The case study is regarding an anthrax epidemic. In April , in a military compound, Sverdlovsk, Russia, an explosion occurred. After a few days after the explosion, the residents and people working in the radius of 4km developed a high fever and had breathing difficulty.
The medical doctors identified it as an outbreak of pulmonary anthrax. Death of people occurred. The Government Officials declared that the outbreak was due to the consumption of meat. A doubt raised when the symptoms of gastric and skin anthrax caused by the consumption of beef were absent in the people infected.
And on further investigation, it was found that cattle near about 50km Southeast also died of anthrax. Autopsies of people who died were performed and they revealed the cause of death to be severe pulmonary edema and toxemia.
DNA analysis done revealed that there was more than one strain of anthrax and it could not be possible if they were infected from the consumption of beef. Then on further investigation, it was found out that the cause of the disease was due to an accidental outbreak of a compound from the Russian bioweapon facility. The next case study is regarding the source identification of HIV.
In the late s, a lot of people from Florida were identified to be infected from HIV even though their histories never indicated those types of lifestyles. An epidemiological investigation then gave a lead regarding the transmittance from a dentist with AIDS. The dentist was first diagnosed with HIV in DNA sequence data were collected from the lymphocytes of the patients, the dentist, a local control group to find out if there is any other reason , and an outgroup was compared.
The analysis showed that the HIV nucleotide sequence was closely related to the sequence of a dentist rather than patients of the controlled groups. On the basis of the phylogenetic comparison, it was identifiable that sequences that are more similar were more closely related and have a few common ancestral sequences.
Introduction: What is microbial forensic and Why is it important. Breeze, Paul S. Keim, Stephen A. Describes the growing field of Microbial Forensics.
This book covers a variety of areas from forensic science, to microbiology, to epidemiology, to bioinformatics, and to legal issues. It is of relevance internationally to military, intelligence, law enforcement, agricultural, legal and environmental fields.
Microbial Forensics describes the new and growing field of Microbial Forensics- the science that will help bring to justice criminals and terrorists who use biological material to cause harm. This book describes the foundation of the field of microbial forensics and will serve as a basic primer to initiate those scientists and officials that have an interest in the topic. It covers a variety of areas from forensic science, to microbiology, to epidemiology, to bioinformatics, and to legal issues.
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