Carcass site 2, day 0 - Microbial communities of desert soil contaminated with blood from dead anthrax infected zebra in Etosha National Park, Namibia -
Soil microbial community dynamics were studied using shotgun sequencing of metagenomics samples from two carcass sites with a anthrax infected zebra. The time period was 30 days, and soils were sampled at days:0, 3, 7, 14, 21 and 30 as well as a blank normal sample. In addition, two Bacillus anthracis strains were isolated as well. The Bacillus anthracis strains in this project were isolated from soils 3 days after blood from a zebra carcass infected the soils. The cause of death of the animals was confirmed to be Bacillus anthracis.