By following a DNA trail through the secretive world of heroin use, researchers may have shown the way for public health officials to solve infectious disease problems affecting the wider population.
Led by Dr. Paul Keim at NAU, a team of international scientists are shining new light on an old question about injectional anthrax by demonstrating the latest advances in whole genome sequencing. The researchers reconstructed a decades-old outbreak of injectional anthrax by DNA analysis of the anthrax conveyed to victims from injecting heroin. The results were published in EBioMedicine.
