bacillus anthracis

'Bacillus anthracis' is considered an effective agent for several reasons.

One-year health assessment of adult survivors of Bacillus anthracis infection.

Also interesting is the effect of alpha-defensins on the exotoxin produced by anthrax (Bacillus anthracis).

Although air sampling showed that workers often breathed Bacillus anthracis spores at the plant, none developed inhalation anthrax until 1957.

Letters containing Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) have been received by mail in several areas in the United States.

Bacillus anthracis (anthrax).

The Ames strain is one of 89 known strains of the anthrax bacterium (Bacillus anthracis).

What precautions should healthcare workers (HCWs) take when treating patients who may be infected and/or contaminated with anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)?

Bacillus anthracis phage AP50 is a bacteriophage that infects Bacillus anthracis bacteria.

Doxycycline is also used as a prophylactic treatment for infection by Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) and is effective against Yersinia pestis, the infectious agent of bubonic plague.

Reporting of the lysis of Bacillus anthracis bacteria by a transmissible "ferment" in 1898, Gamaleya was the discoverer of the bacteria-destroying antibodies known as bacteriolysins.

Fischetti and his colleagues have moved on to using the enzymes systemically to wipe out Bacillus anthracis spores, preventing them from germinating and seething through the bloodstream, producing deadly toxins.

The Anthrax Quick ELISA test has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to identify the Bacillus anthracis bacteria.

Endospore-forming bacteria can also cause disease: for example, anthrax can be contracted by the inhalation of Bacillus anthracis endospores, and contamination of deep puncture wounds with Clostridium tetani endospores causes tetanus.

If a person with ILI also has either a history of exposure or an occupational or environmental risk of exposure to Bacillus anthracis (anthrax), then a differential diagnosis requires distinguishing between ILI and anthrax.

Assists personnel responsible for occupational health and safety in developing a comprehensive program to reduce potential cutaneous or inhalational exposures to Bacillus anthracis spores among workers, including maintenance and custodial workers, in work sites where mail is handled or processed.

The former US biological warfare program categorized its weaponized anti-personnel bio-agents as either Lethal Agents (Bacillus anthracis, Francisella tularensis, Botulinum toxin) or Incapacitating Agents (Brucella suis, Coxiella burnetii, Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, Staphylococcal enterotoxin B).

CDC does not have specific studies to address this, however, cross-contamination of the mail could occur during the processing, sorting, and delivery of mail when an envelope comes in contact with an envelope, piece of equipment (e.g., an electronic sorting machine), or other surface that is contaminated with Bacillus anthracis spores.

The article, titled "Forensic Application of Microbiological Culture Analysis to Identify Mail Intentionally Contaminated with Bacillus anthracis spores," states "Individuals familiar with the compositions of the powders in the letters have indicated that they were comprised simply of spores purified to different extents."