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Recognition and management of anthrax--an update.
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This review article revisits and updates the authors' 1999 review of anthrax and contains practical information for the physician faced with a possible case of this dangerous infection.Abstract:
Infection with Bacillus anthracis, commonly known as anthrax, has reemerged as a weapon of bioterrorism. This review article revisits and updates our 1999 review of anthrax and contains practical information for the physician faced with a possible case of this dangerous infection.read more
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Binary Bacterial Toxins: Biochemistry, Biology, and Applications of Common Clostridium and Bacillus Proteins
TL;DR: This review comprehensively surveys the literature and discusses the similarities and distinct differences between each Clostridium and Bacillus binary toxin in terms of their biochemistry, biology, genetics, structure, and applications in science and medicine.
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Systematic Review: A Century of Inhalational Anthrax Cases from 1900 to 2005
Jon Erik C. Holty,Dena M. Bravata,Hau Liu,Richard A. Olshen,Kathryn M. McDonald,Douglas K Owens +5 more
TL;DR: This work systematically reviewed published cases of inhalational anthrax between 1900 and 2005 to evaluate the effects of patient factors (for example, age and sex) and therapeutic factors ( for example, time to onset of treatment) on disease progression and mortality.
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Complicated infections of skin and skin structures: when the infection is more than skin deep.
TL;DR: Etrtapenem is a once-a-day parenteral Group 1 carbapenem antibiotic, recently licensed in the USA and Europe, which may assume an important role in treating some complicated skin and skin-structure infections.
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Index Case of Fatal Inhalational Anthrax Due to Bioterrorism in the United States
TL;DR: This 63-year-old newspaper photo editor had a rapidly progressive febrile illness, and lumbar puncture showed cloudy cerebrospinal fluid with numerous polymorphonuclear leukocytes and many large gram-positive bacilli, singly and in chains.
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Determination of ofloxacin, norfloxacin, and ciprofloxacin in sewage by selective solid-phase extraction, liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection, and liquid chromatography--tandem mass spectrometry.
TL;DR: A solid-phase extraction (SPE) and liquid chromatographic (LC) method was developed for the determination of selected fluoroquinolone (FQ) drugs including ofloxacin, norfloxac in municipal wastewater samples.
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Anthrax as a Biological Weapon Medical and Public Health Management
Thomas V. Inglesby,Donald A. Henderson,John G. Bartlett,Michael S. Ascher,Edward M. Eitzen,Arthur M. Friedlander,Jerome Hauer,Joseph E. McDade,Michael T. Osterholm,Gerald W. Parker,Trish M. Perl,Philip K. Russell,Kevin Tonat +12 more
TL;DR: A consensus-based recommendation for measures to be taken by medical and public health professionals following the use of anthrax as a biological weapon against a civilian population was developed by a working group of 21 representatives from staff of major academic medical centers and research as mentioned in this paper.
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Postexposure Prophylaxis against Experimental Inhalation Anthrax
Arthur M. Friedlander,Susan L. Welkos,Margaret L. Pitt,John W. Ezzell,Patricia L. Worsham,Kenneth J. Rose,Bruce E. Ivins,John R. Lowe,Gerald B. Howe,Perry Mikesell,Wade B. Lawrence +10 more
TL;DR: Protecting monkeys exposed to a lethal aerosol dose of Bacillus anthracis when the antibiotic was discontinued by combining postexposure antibiotic treatment with vaccination was provided.
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Iraq's biological weapons. The past as future?
TL;DR: The international community must be firm in its enforcement of United Nations resolutions designed to deter Iraq from reacquiring biological warfare capability and must take steps to develop a multidisciplinary approach to limiting future development of weapons of mass destruction.
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PCR analysis of tissue samples from the 1979 Sverdlovsk anthrax victims: The presence of multiple Bacillus anthracis strains in different victims
Paul J. Jackson,Martin Hugh-Jones,Debra M. Adair,Gertrude Green,Karen K. Hill,Cheryl R. Kuske,Lev M. Grinberg,Faina A. Abramova,Paul Keim +8 more
TL;DR: In the case of the outbreak of human anthrax in Sverdlovsk, Union of Soviet Socialists Republic (now Ekaterinburg, Russia) in April 1979, DNA was extracted from 11 victims and extracted DNA was analyzed by using PCR to determine whether it contained Bacillus anthracis specific sequences as mentioned in this paper.