Inhalation anthrax develops when you breathe in anthrax spores. It's the most deadly form of the disease, and is often fatal, even with treatment. Initial signs and symptoms include: Flu-like symptoms for a few hours or days, such as sore throat, mild fever, fatigue and muscle aches ...
Disease progresses rapidly from nonspecific symptoms to death in the majority of cases. Diagnosis can be made by Gram stain or by culture of body fluids or lesions. Serologic tests including enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and polymerase chain reaction are available in specialized laboratories. ...
disease - an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning cutaneous anthrax, malignant pustule - a form of anthrax infection that begins as papule that becomes a vesicle and breaks with a discharge of toxins; symptoms of septicemia are severe with vomiting and high fever and profus...
Symptoms of the three types vary and could include skin sores, nausea, vomiting, or shock. Cutaneous and gastrointestinal forms of anthrax are mild and can be treated easily with antibiotics. Inhaled anthrax can be difficult to treat and is usually fatal. How Common is Anthrax? Anthrax affects ...
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Anthrax is a zoonotic disease that occurs in domesticated and wild animals. Humans become infected by contact with infected animals or contaminated products, but there are no cases of human-to-human transmission. Under natural circumstances, infection occurs by the cutaneous route and extremely rarely...
Inhalational anthraxresults from breathing anthrax spores into the lungs. People who handle animal hides infested with spores may develop inhalational anthrax, known as woolsorter's disease. The earliest symptoms resemble those of a respiratory infection such as mildfeverandsore throat. Once established...
The clinical presentation of this disease in susceptible herbivores is usually characterised by septicaemia and sudden death with/without bleeding from natural orifices and subcutaneous haemorrhages. Other symptoms in livestock and some wild herbivores are fever, dyspnoea, agitation, convulsions followed by...
The disease which has affected humans and animals for centuries, today has reentered the modern world as a terrorist weapon. Learn more about anthrax, its cause, symptoms and treatment as well as its potential use as a biologic weapon in this book. 展开 关键词:...
Anthrax is one of the oldest recorded diseases of humans and animals, with Egyptian and Greek references dating back several millennia [3]. The disease was known as the “Black Bane” in the Middle Ages, and major outbreaks (plagues) of anthrax are described in the Bible [4]. In the lat...