Anthrax
Anthrax is a disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, a bacteria that can form spores. A spore contains the vital parts of the bacteria in a hard cover that allows it to live until good conditions allow it to grow.
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Anthrax is an infectious disease caused by spores of the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The B.
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Approximately 95 percent of human cases of anthrax are the cutaneous form and about 5 percent the inhalation form. Gastrointestinal anthrax is rare.
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Anthrax is a rare and potentially fatal bacterial disease. The infectious agent is Bacillus anthracis, a bacterium that targets both wild and domesticated hoofed herbivores, especially animals such as deer, cattle, sheep, goats and horses.
ANTHRAX (the Greek for "coal," or "carbuncle," so called by the ancients because they regarded it as burning like coal; cf. the French equivalent charbon; also known as fievre charbonneuse, Milzbrand, splenic fever, and malignant pustule), ...
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Anthrax, a zoonotic disease, is one of the earliest diseases known to man.
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Alternate Names : Woolsorter's disease, Ragpicker's disease, Cutaneous anthrax, Gastrointestinal anthrax
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Anthrax is described in the early literature of the Greeks, Romans, and Hindus. The fifth plague, described in the book of Genesis, may be among the earliest descriptions of anthrax.
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Anthrax signs and symptoms, exposure and prophylaxis, infection control, images, treatment, and use as a bioterrorism agent.
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During harsh conditions, the large, rod-shaped bacteria that cause Anthrax develop into spores that can be released into the air and inhaled.
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Anthrax, caused by Bacillus anthracis, is an infection of animals and man.
The spore of this organism is remarkably resistant to drying out, and can exist dormant for decades.
GI anthrax ranges from asymptomatic to fatal. Fever, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and bloody diarrhea are common. Ascites may be present. Intestinal necrosis and septicemia with potentially lethal toxicity ensue.
Can anthrax be prevented?
Medicine can prevent infection before and soon after exposure to anthrax spores.
How is anthrax treated?
Several antibiotics are effective in cutaneous anthrax, notably doxycycline (and some other antibiotics of the tetracycline class), erythromycin, penicillin and ciprofloxacin.
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Anthrax is caused by the rod-shaped bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Like most bacteria, B. anthracis reproduces by forming spores. It is primarily a disease of hoofed animals (cattle, sheep, goats), but it can affect humans, as well.
Anthrax spores have been used experimentally by various nations as a biological warfare agent, but effective delivery of anthrax to a population is difficult, and such use is now banned by international convention.
Anthrax commonly affects hoofed animals such as sheep and goats, but humans who come into contact with the infected animals can get sick from anthrax, too.
Anthrax is caused by the bacteria Bacillus anthracis. While anthrax commonly affects hoofed animals such as sheep and goats, humans may get sick from anthrax, too.
It is transmitted to humans usually by contact with infected animals or their discharges (agricultural anthrax) or with contaminated animal products (industrial anthrax).
Anthrax is an acute disease caused by Bacillus anthracis. It affects both humans and animals and most forms of the disease are highly lethal. There are effective vaccines against anthrax, and some forms of the disease respond...
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Anthrax occurs in three forms:
Cutaneous anthrax. This form infects the skin, causing a sore with a black center. It occurs when a cut, blister or other skin wound comes into contact with anthrax spores.
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Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Anthrax commonly affects hoofed animals such as sheep and goats, but humans can get sick from anthrax, too.
Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by a bacterium, Bacillus anthrasis.
Anthrax is not contagious by breathing in the air of an infected individual. The only way to transmit anthrax from person to person would literally require an infected person rubbing an open area of skin against an opening in another person's skin.
Vaccination, anthrax
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A series of six shots over six months and booster shots annually, the anthrax vaccine now in use in the USA was first developed in the 1950s ...
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Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The spore produces a toxin that can be fatal.
How is Spreads: The spores can spread by inhalation, a break in the skin, or ingestion.
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Anthrax vaccine side-effects
What are the risks from anthrax vaccine?
Like any medicine, a vaccine could cause a serious problem, such as a severe allergic reaction.
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Dosing and administration changes have been made to the anthrax vaccine protocol.
Anthrax as a biological weapon
Before 2001, numerous nations are believed to have experimented with anthrax as a biological weapon, including the United States.
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Inspite the fact that anthrax has been usually observed in well defined areas or as an occupational hazard , nowdays it is very important due to its potential use as a biological weapon.
Anthrax
Anthrax is a disease of sheep and cattle transmittable to humans.
Antibiotic
An antibiotic is a substance that inhibits the growth of micro organisms.
Anthrax: A serious bacterial infection caused by Bacillus anthracis that occurs primarily in animals. Cattle, sheep, horses, mules, and some wild animals are highly susceptible. Humans and swine are generally quite resistant to anthrax.
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What Is Anthrax?
Anthrax is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis . It can occur in humans when they have been exposed to contaminated animals or tissue from these animals.
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A hard and circumscribed inflammatory tubercle like a boil, which sometimes forms on the cheek, neck, or back, and in a few days becomes highly gangrenous.
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Cutaneous anthrax is an infection of the skin caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The bacteria causes disease when it comes into contact with non-intact skin. During an infection, an initial skin lesion forms then blisters.
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Anthrax is a disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, a bacterium that has the ability to form spores; spores are cells that are essentially dormant (asleep) but may become active under certain conditions. Anthrax disease can take 3 forms.
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Three forms of anthrax disease are recognized based on their form of inoculation. Cutaneous: the most common form (95%), causes a localized inflammatory black necrotic lesion (eschar) ...
(a) Contact with anthrax spores, including contact with animals infected by anthrax; or
(b) handling, loading, unloading or transport of animals of a type susceptible to infection with anthrax or of the products or residues of such animals
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