Patent ID: 8293885

Claim:
A composition for detecting Bacillus anthracis comprising at least two isolated hybridization oligonucleotides consisting of between 20 and 40 nucleotides, each of which independently hybridize specifically to a capB target sequence selected from the group consisting of: SEQ ID NOS:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 25 or 26, sequences fully complementary to SEQ ID NOS:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 25 or 26, RNA equivalents of SEQ ID NOS:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 25 or 26, and RNA equivalents fully complementary to SEQ ID NOS:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 25 or 26.