Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense
Open Access

Review Article

Microbial Forensics: A Powerful Tool for Pursuing Bioterrorism Perpetrators and the Need for an International Database

Ruifu Yang^1* and Paul Keim²

¹Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, No.20, Dongdajie, Fengtai, Beijing 100071, P.R. of China

²Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

*Corresponding Author:

Ruifu Yang
Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology
No.20, Dongdajie, Fengtai, Beijing 100071, P.R. of China
E-mail: ruifuyang@gmail.com

Received Date: November 04, 2011; Accepted Date: January 07, 2012; Published Date: January 13, 2012

Citation: Yang R, Keim P (2012) Microbial Forensics: A Powerful Tool for Pursuing Bioterrorism Perpetrators and the Need for an International Database. J Bioterr Biodef S3:007. doi: 10.4172/2157-2526.S3-007

Copyright: © 2012 Yang R, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.