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Bacillus anthracis is a gram-positive and rod-shaped bacterium that causes anthrax, a deadly disease to livestock and, occasionally, to humans. It is the only permanent ( obligate ) pathogen within the genus Bacillus .
Damage caused by the anthrax spores and bacilli to the central chest cavity can cause chest pain and difficulty breathing. Once in the lymph nodes, the spores germinate into active bacilli that multiply and eventually burst the macrophages, releasing many more bacilli into the bloodstream to be transferred to the entire body.
Anthrax is a disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, a spore-forming, Gram positive, rod-shaped bacterium (Fig. 1).The lethality of the disease is caused by the bacterium's two principal virulence factors: (i) the polyglutamic acid capsule, which is anti-phagocytic, and (ii) the tripartite protein toxin, called anthrax toxin.
Anthrax: Bacillus anthracis: commonly – grazing herbivores such as cattle, sheep, goats, camels, horses, and pigs by ingestion, inhalation or skin contact of spores Ascariasis: Ascaris suum, Toxocara canis, Toxocara cati: pigs, dogs, cats ingestion of eggs from contaminated soil, food, or water Avian influenza: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1
In September 2001, letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. Of those infected, 11 developed cutaneous anthrax, while 11 developed inhalation anthrax. 20 of the 22 infected worked at a site where contaminated mail was handled or received. [7]
Dr. Juno Thomas, the head of the NICD’s Centre for Enteric Diseases, likened the testing to “DNA fingerprinting” that allowed the institute to compare the bacteria from patients ...
Bacillus anthracis: Contact with cattle, sheep, goats and horses [51] Spores enter through inhalation or through abrasions [33] Anthrax: pulmonary, gastrointestinal and/or cutaneous symptoms. [48] In early infection: [52] Penicillin Doxycycline Ciprofloxacin Raxibacumab [53] Anthrax vaccine [33] Autoclaving of equipment [33] Bacteroides ...
Diseases like polio and diphtheria, once major causes of childhood death and injury, have vanished in the U.S due to vaccines. And in the last 50 years, the measles vaccine alone has saved more ...