The bacteria that cause deadly anthrax disease persist in the earth, a place their ancestors preferred over petri dishes and ...

WHAT IS ANTHRAX? Bacillus anthracis is a rod-shaped bacterium that typically appears–when outside a living host–in a dormant state, protected by a hard-shelled spore. Provided it is lodged in rich ...

From a zebra carcass on the plains of Namibia in Southern Africa, an international team of researchers has discovered a new, unusually large virus (or bacteriophage) that infects the bacterium that ...

Anthrax, which is present in many soils, can come out of dormancy and cause sudden death in livestock. Although most picture the white powder developed in a laboratory and associated with the 2001 ...

Anthrax, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is often treatable in its early stages. But once the disease has progressed beyond the "point of no return" after just a few ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Systemic anthrax is caused by unimpeded bacillar replication and toxin secretion. We developed a dually active anthrax vaccine (DAAV) that ...

In the age-old battle between man and microbe, it pays to know your enemy. This is especially true for Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes anthrax. Tiny spores of this highly infectious ...

NEW YORK — Probably not very many readers of this space are subscribers to the scientific journal Aerosol Science and Technology. Neither am I. But an article in that publication published in March ...

For many years, emergency service terrorism training programs have warned about the potential use of biological materials by terrorists. Anthrax threats had become the bomb threats of the late 1990s ...

News organizations reporting on anthrax bear several weighty responsibilities: To share information without crying wolf; to present complex biological facts and theories with accuracy and clarity; to ...

IN April, 1957, a twenty-eight-year-old man with a two-and-a-half-year history of confirmed sarcoidosis contracted fatal inhalation anthrax. The diagnosis was proved by pathological and bacteriologic ...