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! To: Washington ©, From: Washington Field Re: 279A-WF-222936-USAMRIID, 01/06/2005 percent spore viabilities of spore paste, slurries, and dried materials/ thereby , determining if there are changes in viability/ numbers throughout the manipulation of.the gpore material / Spore preparations acquired during AMERITHRAX searches may also prove useful in determining ranges in viabilities for spores prepared by different investigators, protocols and media. bé b7c bTUF Since the percent viability for a spore preparation can not be altered simply by dilution, sub-samples removed from a preparation and maintained under similar conditions as the master stock, should not vary in their percent viability. If the percent viability of sub-samples, derived fro have been maintained under similar conditions , are found to have viabilities comparable to it is safe to assume that the percent viability was always Assuming the percent viability was a _ conjunction with the concentration dropping from bIF