Detection of Biological Agents

Early detection of a biological attack could enable the preparedness community to treat the exposed and protect the unexposed to significantly reduce the number and severity of casualties. Methods to detect a bioterrorist attack can either focus on the detection of clouds that could potentially be biological aerosols or rely on more sophisticated techniques that probe a given sample for particular biological agents, distinguishing harmful microbes from nonpathogenic ones. Alternatively, an early warning that a biological attack has occurred could be accomplished by monitoring patterns in such data as hospital records, tollbooth receipts, or animal deaths. Keywords: aerosol particle sizers; bioterrorism; detect-to-protect; detect-to-treat; detect-to-warn; detection; detectors; flow cytometry; immunoassays; LIDAR; mass spectrometry; PCR; sensors; sentinel population surveillance; syndromic surveillance

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