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Sentinel Laboratory Guidelines for Suspected Agents of Bioterrorism, Brucella species

This document is included in Selected Analytical Methods for Environmental Remediation and Recovery (SAM). 

Citation:

American Society for Microbiology. October 15, 2004. Sentinel Laboratory Guidelines for Suspected Agents of Bioterrorism, Brucella species.

U.S. EPA. April 2015. Method 545: Determination of Cylindrospermopsin and Anatoxin-a in Drinking Water by Liquid Chromatography Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC/ESI-MS/MS), EPA 815-R-15-009.

Description:

Analytical method

Purpose/Objective:

EPA's Selected Analytical Methods for Environmental Remediation and Recovery (SAM) lists this method for post-decontamination analysis of Brucella species in aerosols, particulates, soils, drinking water and post-decontamination waste water samples.   

  • ASM Sentinel Laboratory Guidelines for Suspected Agents of Bioterrorism: Brucella species (pdf) (315.18 KB)

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