Lwj. Baillie et al., EVALUATION OF THE BIOLOG SYSTEM FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF BACILLUS-ANTHRACIS, Letters in applied microbiology, 20(4), 1995, pp. 209-211
The potential of the Biolog system for the identification of Bacillus
anthracis was evaluated. In-house generated databases allowed the corr
ect identification of 19 of 20 isolates of B. anthracis within 24 h. F
ive strains of the closely related B. cereus/thuringiensis group were
misidentified as B. anthracis. For this reason the test could only ser
ve as a primary screen with further testing being required to confirm
identity. In addition 20% of all the strains of bacilli examined durin
g the study gave unreadable reaction profiles due to false-positive re
actions.