NIAID Biodefense Research Agenda for Category B and C Priority Pathogens;Progress rept

摘要

The nation's ability to detect and counter bioterrorism depends largely on information generated through biomedical research on pathogenic microbes and the immune response to these microbes. A small amount of biodefense research had been conducted for years by civilian agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It was the anthrax attacks of 2001, however, that revealed significant gaps in the nation's overall preparedness against potential agents of bioterrorism.