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Better safe than sorry: A combined analytical procedure consisting of Raman spectroscopy and chemometrics can be used to test for anthrax endospores in environmental samples. Time-consuming enrichment steps are not required and low levels of anthrax endospores in household substances like baking powder can be detected within 3 h and discriminated against other nonpathogenic Bacillus species with typing accuracies of up to 99 %.
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Stöckel et al. (2012) studied this question.
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