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It may also reflect differences in exposure routes; or, it may suggest that incubation in the field can lead to increased concentrations or virulence of the organism.
A skin air sac model was used to compare the virulence of isolate CS101 and paired isogenic mutants [ 9 ] . Briefly an air- and liquid-tight connective tissue pouch was generated on the back of female, six week old, outbred CD1 mice (Charles River, Portage, MI) by slow dermal injection of 0.9 mL of air via an 0.4 mm needle on a 1.0 mL syringe.
As the double mutant was susceptible to disease caused by this bacterial strain (data not shown), perhaps this residual gene induction was due to the virulence function of avrRpt2 [ 23 ] . Mutant npr1 plants have previously been shown to be impaired in induction of PR-1 but not PR-5 in response to virulent bacterial pathogen [ 19 ] .
Little is known about the identity and function of pXO2 ORFs beyond the virulence genes associated with the B. anthracis capsule ( dep, capACB, acpA ) [ 2 3 4 5 ] . The goal of this study was to determine if many of the novel pXO2 ORFs were unique to B. anthracis , or were conserved in other closely related Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis isolates.
Hearteningly, the attacks failed because the terrorists couldn't obtain or produce germs of sufficient virulence.