Carcass site 1, day 7 - 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.