New Molecular Methods for Detection of Bioterorism Agents

Year 2014, Year: 2014 Issue: 1, 46 - 48, 01.02.2014

Mehmet Tereli Ayla Tüzün

Abstract

In this study we reviwed the newly and featured molecular methods which are increasingly used in bioterrorism surveillance. Some cornerstone devolopments in the detection of bioterrorizm agent are; diversities of mainly emergent disease agent, phage engineering as an effective means to detect or eliminate biological agents, PCR and pre-PCR processing which an important tool for surveillance, biological agent detection kits, mass spectrometric detection and Metagenomics which the genetics subfield studying the combined genomes of a sample are now mainly quickly growing fields

Keywords

Bioterrorism , disease detection , Metagenomics , biothreat agents