Anthrax
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1952
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.28.316.97