This book will be a premier reference for B. Anthracis and anthrax to microbiologists, medical and public health professionals, bioterror research and preparedness, immunologists, and physiologists.

Bacillus anthracis causes anthrax in all mammals, including humans.

This fourth edition of the anthrax guidelines encompasses a systematic review of the extensive new scientific literature and relevant publications up to end 2007 including all the new information that emerged in the 3-4 years after the ...

Abstract: Bacillus anthracis has been classified as one of the most dangerous bioterrorism agents causing high mortality rates in short periods of time.

This report reviews and assesses scientific evidence considered in connection with the 2001 Bacillus anthracis mailings.

Included in this volume, are, the early history, non-natural outbreaks of anthrax, characteristics of the causative organism Bacillus anthracis and its relationship to other members of the B. cereus family.

There are three appendices: the first outlines the reaction of Manchester, New Hampshire, to the 2001 anthrax attacks; the second documents workplace warnings to anthrax-prone workers; and the third lists novels that involve anthrax.

Anthrax disease is a fulminate and lethal infection of mammalian hosts by the Gram-positive pathogen Bacillus anthracis.