ALLMedicine™ Cutaneous Anthrax Center

Feb 21st, 2023 - The intentional use of Bacillus anthracis in 2001 as a bioterrorism weapon with fatal consequences renewed interest in past epidemiologic and animal research about pathogenesis and posed new dilemmas about diagnosis and treatment. Cases in the Oct...

Nov 25th, 2022 - In order to verify the existence of an anthrax outbreak, determine its scope, grasp the epidemiological characteristics and find out the cause of the outbreak and recommend preventive and control measures. Etiological hypothesis was developed thro...

Oct 18th, 2022 - US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines currently recommend triple-therapy antimicrobial treatment for anthrax meningitis. In the Kyrgyz Republic, a country with endemic anthrax, cutaneous anthrax patients are routinely hospitaliz...

Oct 18th, 2022 - Bacillus anthracis can cause anthrax and is a potential bioterrorism agent. The 2014 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations for medical countermeasures against anthrax were based on in vitro data and expert opinion. However, a ...

Oct 18th, 2022 - Cutaneous anthrax accounts for approximately 95% of anthrax cases worldwide. About 24% of untreated patients die, and many cases are complicated by meningitis. Here, we explore clinical features of cutaneous disease associated with poor outcomes. ...

Feb 21st, 2023 - The intentional use of Bacillus anthracis in 2001 as a bioterrorism weapon with fatal consequences renewed interest in past epidemiologic and animal research about pathogenesis and posed new dilemmas about diagnosis and treatment. Cases in the Oct...

Sep 15th, 2008 - Anthrax is a zoonotic disease, occurring in wild and domestic mammals, caused by the spore forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Anthrax occurs in humans when they are exposed to infected animals, tissue from infected animals or when they are dire...

Sep 15th, 2008 - Anthrax is a zoonotic disease, occurring in wild and domestic mammals, caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis (B. anthracis). Anthrax occurs in humans when they are exposed to infected animals, tissue from infected animals or whe...

May 24th, 2018 - To the Editor: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of syphilis cases in the United States decreased 95% from 1945 to 2000. 1 Since 2000, the number of cases of syphilis in the United States has increased from 2.

Dec 1st, 2014 - Would you be able to diagnose the first case of Ebola in a febrile patient who has no travel history and presents to an ED during flu season? Could you distinguish the lesion of cutaneous anthrax early in a bioterrorist attack from that of a brown.

Abstract and Introduction Abstract When swallowed, anthrax spores may cause lesions from the oral cavity to the cecum. Gastrointestinal anthrax is greatly underreported in rural disease-endemic areas of the world. The apparent paucity of this form...

Discussion In this report we review what has been learned from >40 epidemiologic field investigations of confirmed or suspected anthrax outbreaks in humans or animals during the last 50 years. In the 2001 bioterrorism response, investigators evalu...