Microbial Forensics: A Potential Tool for Investigation and Response to Bioterrorism
Health Sciences Review(2022)
摘要
Bioterrorism is the intentional dissemination of bio-warfare agents in a population to cause illness or death. Microbial forensics plays an essential role in the investigation of bio-terror attacks. This is a new field of forensic science that is still in the early stages of growth and faces huge theoretical and ethical obstacles. There is a profound concern with current biotechnological developments that bacteria and viruses may be genetically engineered to modify them as biological weapons. Bioterrorism, like other nuclear weapons, has the potential to cause humanitarian disasters. This paper summarizes different detection methods of bio-warfare agents besides highlighting the various phases of bioterror attacks through the investigatory lens of microbial forensics.
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Microbial forensics,Bio-crime,Bioterrorism,Biological weapon convention,Centers for disease control and prevention
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