Definitions

1. Anthrax is an acute bacterial infection of the skin, lungs or gastrointestinal tract. (Web site)
2. Anthrax is a major disease threat to herbivorous animals (cattle, sheep, and to a lesser extent horses, hogs, and goats). (Web site)
3. Anthrax is a bacterial, zoonotic disease caused by Bacillus Anthracis.
4. Anthrax is a serious disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, a bacterium that forms spores. (Web site)
5. Anthrax is the spore of a bacteria that is alive and replicates and it's not contagious but is infectious.

Bioterrorism-Related Inhalational Anthrax

1. Death due to bioterrorism-related inhalational anthrax: report of 2 patients. (Web site)

Bioterrorism-Related Anthrax

1. Investigation of bioterrorism-related anthrax, United States, 2001: epidemiologic findings. (Web site)

Bacillus Anthracis Bacterium

1. More common in animals than humans, anthrax is a serious disease caused by the Bacillus anthracis bacterium. (Web site)
2. Cutaneous anthrax is diagnosed when the Bacillus anthracis bacterium is found in the skin lesion by a laboratory culture. (Web site)

Communicability

1. Communicability is not a concern in managing or visiting with patients with inhalation anthrax. (Web site)

Muscle Aches

1. Inhalation anthrax begins with flulike symptoms, namely fever, fatigue, headache, muscle aches, and shortness of breath. (Web site)

United States

1. For animals and humans, anthrax is a reportable disease in the United States. (Web site)
2. Anthrax in wild livestock has occurred in the United States. (Web site)
3. Anthrax in livestock grazing on open range where they mix with wild animals still occasionally occurs in the United States and elsewhere. (Web site)

Disease Control

1. General and technical information about anthrax from the Centers for Disease Control.
2. The Center for Disease Control (CDC)does not recommend that you get a flu shot so you can tell if you have the flu or an anthrax-related illness.

Virulent Ames Strain

1. There are 89 known strains of anthrax, the most widely recognized being the virulent Ames strain used in the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States.

Lethal Toxin

1. The lethal toxin (LeTx) composed of the lethal factor (LF) and the protective antigen (PA) is mostly responsible for the high mortality of anthrax. (Web site)

Human Anthrax

1. Human anthrax has three major clinical forms: cutaneous, inhalation, and gastrointestinal.

Cutaneous Form

1. Spontaneous and Bacillus anthracis induced luminol-dependent chemiluminescence of neutrophils was studied in six patients with the cutaneous form of anthrax.
2. Guinea pigs develop a skin lesion subsequent to subcutaneous infection with B. cereus that resembles the cutaneous form of anthrax.

Bio-Terrorism Experts

1. However, most bio-terrorism experts have concluded that it is technologically difficult to use anthrax effectively as a weapon on a large scale. (Web site)

Anthrax Outbreak

1. The virulent Ames strain, which had been used in the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, has received the most news coverage of any anthrax outbreak. (Web site)

Post-Exposure

1. In October 2001, FDA published a Federal Register notice clarifying that these drugs were approved for inhalational anthrax (post-exposure). (Web site)

Doxycycline

1. Doxycycline is also used commonly as a prophylactic treatment for infection by Bacillus anthracis (anthrax). (Web site)
2. Recent studies have shown that doxycycline is beneficial in cases where someone has been exposed to any form of anthrax. (Web site)

Ciprofloxacin

1. Ciprofloxacin is also used to treat or prevent anthrax in people who may have been exposed to anthrax germs in the air.
2. Ciprofloxacin is indicated in pediatric patients for inhalational anthrax (post-exposure). (Web site)

Antibiotic Treatment

1. Early antibiotic treatment of anthrax is essential—delay significantly lessens chances for survival. (Web site)
2. Patients with cutaneous anthrax have reported case fatality rates of 20% without antibiotic treatment and less than 1% with it. (Web site)
3. Because inhaled spores can remain in the body for a long time, antibiotic treatment for inhalation anthrax should continue for 60 days. (Web site)

Spore-Forming Bacterium

1. Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by a spore-forming bacterium called Bacillus anthracis. (Web site)

Bacterium Bacillus Anthracis

1. Anthrax is an acute disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
2. Anthrax is an acute fatal disease of virtually all animals and is caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis.

Animal Products

1. Workers who are exposed to dead animals and animal products from other countries where anthrax is more common may become infected with Bacillus anthracis. (Web site)

Animal

1. The body of an animal that had active anthrax at the time of death can also be a source of anthrax spores. (Web site)

Militarized Anthrax

1. Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik was the boss of William C. Patrick III who holds five patents on the militarized anthrax used by the United States. (Web site)

Metal Band Anthrax

1. Music and celebrity fans The metal band Anthrax included a song about Judge Dredd on their third album (Among the Living) entitled "I am the Law". (Web site)

Intestinal Anthrax

1. The fatality rate for untreated inhaled or intestinal anthrax is over 90%. (Web site)

Inhaled Anthrax

1. Ciprofloxacin in children bayer corporation, it helped that cipro was the only drug approved by the food and drug administration to treat inhaled anthrax.
2. She became critically ill, but with gastrointestinal anthrax rather than inhaled anthrax, which made her unique in American medical history. (Web site)

Thrash Metal Band Anthrax

1. Attack of the Killer B's is a compilation album of B-sides, covers and rarities by the thrash metal band Anthrax. (Web site)

Anthrax Letters

1. Another of their "martyrs," Clayton Waagner, mailed anthrax letters while a fugitive on the FBI's 10 most wanted list for anti-abortion related crimes. (Web site)

Zoonotic Disease

1. Anthrax has an almost worldwide distribution and is a zoonotic disease, meaning it may spread from animals to humans. (Web site)

Anthrax Attacks

1. The anthrax attacks in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 in the USA have illustrated the high potential of anthrax for misuse in bio-terrorism. (Web site)

Anthrax Vaccines

1. By various techniques involving oxidation and aging, anthrax vaccines indeed prevented anthrax in laboratory trials.
2. Gulf War veterans with Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) received anthrax vaccines which contained squalene.

Anthrax Vaccine

1. The animals of one group were injected with an anthrax vaccine prepared by Pasteur twice, at an interval of 15 days; the control group was left unvaccinated. (Web site)
2. Between May 1999 and September 2000, Stanford Research International (SRI), under DoD contract, looked for squalene in anthrax vaccine.

Three Forms

1. Human anthrax occurs primarily in three forms: cutaneous, gastrointestinal, and inhalation. (Web site)

Military

1. A vaccine to prevent anthrax is available for people in the military and others at high risk. (Web site)

Untreated

1. All patients with inhalation (pulmonary) anthrax will die if untreated. (Web site)
2. Even if untreated, 80 percent of people who become infected with cutaneous anthrax do not die. (Web site)
3. People inhale the anthrax spores and, if untreated, are likely to die. (Web site)

Several

1. As discussed, each molecule interacts with several others in order to induce the endocytosis of the anthrax toxin. (Web site)

Exposure

1. Fatal inhalational anthrax with unknown source of exposure in a 61-year-old woman in New York City. (Web site)

Person-To-Person

1. Direct person-to-person spread of anthrax is extremely unlikely, if it occurs at all. (Web site)

Transmission

1. After Casimir Davaine showed the direct transmission of the Anthrax disease bacillus between cows, Koch studied anthrax more closely.

Contact

1. It is generally acquired following contact with anthrax-infected animals or anthrax-contaminated animal products. (Web site)
2. Historically, the main risk factor for getting anthrax was some type of contact with contaminated animal hides, hair, bone products, and wool.

Person

1. Anthrax does not spread directly from one infected animal or person to another; it is spread by spores. (Web site)
2. Treatment is different for a person who is exposed to anthrax, but is not yet sick. (Web site)
3. The anthrax serology test can determine if a person has been previously exposed to Bacillus anthracis. (Web site)

Lungs

1. Pulmonary, or inhalation, anthrax begins with flulike symptoms and ultimately causes lesions in the lungs and brain. (Web site)
2. Often fatal if the bacterium enters the lungs, anthrax is usually treated by antibiotics. (Web site)
3. Anthrax bacteria (Bacillus anthracis) enter the body through breaks in the skin or through the nose and lungs. (Web site)

Horses

1. Horses may carry anthrax, rabies, and Salmonella infections. (Web site)

Management

1. Anthrax Response Manual - A free stat manual for the identification, management and treatment of inhalation anthrax.

Researchers

1. The researchers, however, hope that a drug against anthrax toxin can be ready for human use within the next years. (Web site)

Laboratory

1. A blood sample taken in a sealed container and analyzed in an approved laboratory should be used to ascertain if anthrax is the cause of death. (Web site)

Contagious

1. Not only leprosy and oriental plague were thus infective, or contagious, but also anthrax, scabies, tuberculosis, and erysipelas. (Web site)

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