Improved anthrax vaccine is needed, claims report
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Development of an improved vaccine for anthrax.
Bacillus anthracis are aerobic or facultatively anaerobic Gram-positive, nonmotile rods measuring 1.0 μm wide by 3.0–5.0 μm long. Under adverse conditions, B. anthracis form highly resistant endospores (Figure 1). These are found in soil at sites where infected animals previously died. Interest in the pathogenesis, immunity, and vaccine development for anthrax was heightened by the deliberate c...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.324.7338.630/b