ANTHRAX PROBLEM IN MASSACHUSETTS

An Industry-Related Outbreak of Human Anthrax: Massachusetts, 1868

bonucleic acid relatedness between Bacil-lus anthracis, Bacillus cereus and Bacillus thuringiensis. Deetz K. Oligonucleotides with fluorescent dyes at opposite ends provide a quenched probe system useful for detecting PCR product and nucleic acid hybridization. To the Editor: In Bioterrorism-Related Inhalational Anthrax: The First 10 Cases Reported in the United States, Jernigan et al. noted th...

Gastrointestinal anthrax: clinical experience in 5 cases

Background: Bacillus anthracis may usually cause three forms of anthrax: inhalation, gastrointestinal and cutaneous. The gastrointestinal (GI) anthrax develops after eating contaminated meat. Thus, in this paper were report 5 cases of intestinal anthrax. Case Presentation: We report a case series of intestinal anthrax, with history of consumption of raw or poorly cooked liver of sheep. One pati...

Anthrax.

Anthrax is an often fatal bacterial infection that occurs when Bacillus anthracis endospores enter the body through one of three major routes: inhalational, cutaneous, or gastrointestinal. Before the anthrax terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001, there was very little interest in anthrax as a serious human pathogen; anthrax was viewed mainly as a veterinarian problem of minor importanc...

[Anthrax].

Having dwelled on the etiopathogenetic, pathologic, and clinical features of human infections caused by B. anthracis, the authors review and analyze epidemiological data of the cases of anthrax registered in Italy during the last ten years. Actual possibilities for prevention are evaluated in view of the fact that enzootic foci still exist in our country which are clearly responsible for the ty...

Reducing Anthrax Infection in Man through Animal Vaccination in Iran