{"610817":{"#nid":"610817","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Genomic study of 412 anthrax strains provides new virulence clues","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/msystems.asm.org\/content\/msys\/3\/4\/e00065-18.full.pdf\u0022\u003Enew study\u003C\/a\u003E found that the severity of anthrax may be related to how many copies of plasmids a strain carries. Plasmids are responsible for\u0026nbsp;producing the toxin. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ce.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/711\/overview\u0022\u003EKonstantinos \u0026quot;Kostas\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;Konstantinidis\u003C\/a\u003E, who has a joint appointment in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/biosci.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ce.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E, says that the research could also provide clues about the severity of other organisms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34651","created_gmt":"2018-09-04 14:15:30","changed_gmt":"2018-09-04 14:25:36","author":"mrosten3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Juneteenth Celebration","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/08\/180830095347.htm","dateline":{"date":"2018-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-08-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"46233":{"id":"46233","type":"image","title":"Kostas Konstantinidis","body":null,"created":"1449174358","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:25:58","changed":"1475894412","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:12","alt":"Kostas Konstantinidis","file":{"fid":"101033","name":"tvl34376.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tvl34376_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tvl34376_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1316218,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tvl34376_0.jpg?itok=yD2Znd-j"}}},"media_ids":["46233"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"178877","name":"plasmid"},{"id":"1132","name":"anthrax"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"167864","name":"School of Civil and Environmental Engineering"},{"id":"12758","name":"Kostas Konstantinidis"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}