Citation

Murray BE, Anderson KE, Arnold K, Bartlett JG, Carpenter CC, Falkow S, Hartman JT, Lehman T, Reid TW, Ryburn FM, Sack RB, Struelens MJ, Young LS, Greenough WB. Clin. Infect. Dis. 2005; 40(11): 1644-1648.

Affiliation

Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA. bem.asst@uth.tmc.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, University of Chicago Press)

DOI

10.1086/431348

PMID

15889363

Abstract

Thomas Campbell Butler, at 63 years of age, is completing the first year of a 2-year sentence in federal prison, following an investigation and trial that was initiated after he voluntarily reported that he believed vials containing Yersinia pestis were missing from his laboratory at Texas Tech University. We take this opportunity to remind the infectious diseases community of the plight of our esteemed colleague, whose career and family have, as a result of his efforts to protect us from infection by this organism, paid a price from which they will never recover.

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