Abstract
The article “Some Bioterrorism Issues of Quantitative Biosafety” by Alex Sabelnikov, Vladimir Zhukov, and Ruth Kempf (Center for Security Studies and Research, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina) that appeared on pages 67–73 of Applied Biosafety (Volume 11, Number 2, 2006) should have had a fourth table included. Table 4 was inadvertently deleted from the published manuscript, and should be included in this article. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Detection of different doses of a BW agent with ID50 index of 5 by the
model PCR-, Antibody/antigen-, and MS-based sensors with the best metric
characteristics
Risk of Infection
Dose of inhaled BW
agent(ID50) = 5)
Probability of detection,
Pid of BW agents by:
PCR-based model biosensor
Antibody/antigen-based sensor
MS-based model biosensor
0.000001
7.22E-05
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00001
0.000722
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.0001
0.007215
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.001
0.072186
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.725132
0.00
0.00
0.01
0.1
7.601769
0.00
1.00
0.05