Public health. Building microbial forensics as a response to bioterrorism.
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Abstract
Combating bioterrorism is a challenge to all of us. To be proactive, the U.S. Government has formalized the discipline of "microbial forensics" to deter and attribute perpetrators of such acts. This Policy Forum describes the foundations of the microbial forensics program: the creation of a national bioforensics laboratory, a partnership laboratory network, and a peer-consensus scientific working group and the promulgation of quality assurance guidelines.
Medical subject headings
- Bioterrorism
- Forensic Medicine
- Laboratories
- Microbiology