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Office: 803 733 1529
Fax: 803 733 3192
E-mail:
kfox
@med.sc.edu
Department of Pathology, Microbiology
and Immunology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC
29208
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Dr. Karen Fox is a molecular
bacteriologist whose long-term research interests relate to developing new
technologies and markers for differentiating bacterial species and strains. This
work is being performed at both the genomic and proteomic levels.
Traditionally she has focused on the need for better ways to discriminate among
closely related bacterial species (e.g. Bacillus anthracis and
Bacillus cereus) as relates to clinical diagnosis and biodetection in the
environment. However since the terrorist attacks on the US postal service with
anthrax in 2002, we are seeing the development of a new scientific discipline
(microbial forensics) which relates to defining whether an organism was grown in
a particular laboratory under specific growth conditions (source tracking).
This is causing a fundamental change on the microbiological perspective in
developments in this area.
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