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Chapter 67 - Anthrax

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2018

By
David M. Stier ,
Mary P. Mercer  and
Rachel L. Chin
Edited by
Rachel L. Chin ,
Bradley W. Frazee  and
Zlatan Coralic
Rachel L. Chin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Bradley W. Frazee
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Zlatan Coralic
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
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Emergency Management of Infectious Diseases , pp. 480 - 489
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Dixon, T. C., Meselson, M., Guillemin, J., et al. Anthrax. N. Engl. J. Med. 1999; 341(11): 815–26.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Inglesby, T. V., O’Toole, T., Henderson, D. A., et al. Anthrax as a biological weapon, 2002: updated recommendations for management. JAMA 2002; 287(17): 2236–52.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Martin, G. J. and Friedlander, A. M. Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) in Bennett, J. E., Dolin, R., and Blaser, M. J. (eds.), Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 8th edn. (Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier/Saunders, 2015), pp. 2391–409.Google Scholar

Additional Readings

Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. Anthrax: current, comprehensive information on pathogenesis, microbiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prophylaxis (CIDRAP, 2006), retrieved March 20, 2018 from www.cidrap.umn.edu/infectious-disease-topics/anthrax.Google Scholar
Dixon, T. C., Meselson, M., Guillemin, J., et al. Anthrax. N. Engl. J. Med. 1999; 341(11): 815–26.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Inglesby, T. V., O’Toole, T., Henderson, D. A., et al. Anthrax as a biological weapon, 2002: updated recommendations for management. JAMA 2002; 287(17): 2236–52.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Martin, G. J. and Friedlander, A. M. Bacillus anthracis (anthrax) in Bennett, J. E., Dolin, R., and Blaser, M. J. (eds.), Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 8th edn. (Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier/Saunders, 2015), pp. 2391–409.Google Scholar

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