NIH Guidelines for Review of Recombinant DNA Research Involving Drug Resistance in Yersinia pestis

Summary

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been notified of a proposal to transfer a chloramphenicol resistance trait into an attenuated strain of Yersinia pestis, a bacterium that causes plague, and must review and approve the research under the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules.