Detecting Biological Warfare Agents

Detecting Biological Warfare Agents

We developed a fiber-optic, microsphere-based, high-density array composed of 18 species-specific probe microsensors to identify biological warfare agents. We simultaneously identified multiple biological warfare agents in environmental samples by looking at specific probe responses after hybridization and response patterns of the multiplexed array.

Biological Warfare Agents

Biological warfare agents were one of the most feared classes of weapons that coalition troops believed Iraq might use against them. Biologic agents can either be sufficiently toxic that they kill their victims quickly, or they may induce a sufficient degree of acute disability that troops cannot fight effectively or defend themselves against an attack. The Centers for Disease Control and Preve...

Effects of Biological Warfare Agents

INTRODUCTION. The information herein has been compiled from official publications of the Department of the Army, Office 0f Civil and Defense Mobilization, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and from other sources. No classified material is included. This is not a substitute for the technical details in other official and more voluminous publications, but has been prepared as a guide t...

Detection of Biological Warfare Agents

History of chemical and biological warfare agents.

Chemical and biological warfare agents constitute a low-probability, but high-impact risk both to the military and to the civilian population. The use of hazardous materials of chemical or biological origin as weapons and for homicide has been documented since ancient times. The first use of chemicals in terms of weapons of mass destruction goes back to World War I, when on April 22, 1915 large...