| the koch-pasteur dispute on establishing the cause of anthrax. | | 1988 | 3285924 |
| [pasteur and koch, controversy but also mutual homage]. | | 1987 | 3296116 |
| anthrax outbreak in soviet union due to natural causes? | | 1988 | 3357530 |
| sverdlovsk: anthrax capital? | | 1988 | 3358121 |
| production and characterization of monoclonal antibodies to the protective antigen component of bacillus anthracis toxin. | thirty-six monoclonal antibodies to the protective antigen protein of bacillus anthracis exotoxin have been characterized for affinity, antibody subtype, competitive binding to antigenic regions, and ability to neutralize lethal and edema toxin activities. at least 23 antigenic regions were detected on protective antigen by a blocking, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. two clones, 3b6 and 14b7, competed for a single antigenic region and neutralized the activity of both the lethal toxin in vivo ... | 1988 | 3384478 |
| leads from the mmwr. human cutaneous anthrax--north carolina, 1987. | | 1988 | 3392782 |
| prevalence of anthrax in emergency slaughtered food animals in nigeria. | | 1988 | 3407129 |
| human cutaneous anthrax--north carolina, 1987. | | 1988 | 3415276 |
| [sporadic cases of the cutaneous form of anthrax]. | | 1987 | 3439108 |
| overwhelming pneumonia. | overwhelming pneumonia may be caused by a large number of different organisms in both immunocompetent and compromised hosts. in this article, the most common etiologies of overwhelming pneumonia are considered from an epidemiologic and clinical point of view. | 1986 | 3487011 |
| one century after louis pasteur's victory against rabies. | | 1986 | 3521343 |
| [isolated fever and anthrax of the kidney]. | | 1986 | 3544406 |
| familial occurrence of anthrax in eastern algeria. | | 1987 | 3559284 |
| non-anthrax bacillus infections in children. | | 1987 | 3562146 |
| cutaneous anthrax. | the case of a 9-year-old boy diagnosed and treated for cutaneous anthrax is presented. we discuss the clinical features and course of this disease, encountered today only rarely in less developed regions where humans are in contact with infected animals. | 1987 | 3621994 |
| a case of cutaneous anthrax with toxaemic shock. | we describe a patient who presented with a necrotic black eschar 2 x 2 cm on the neck, extensive erythema around the lesion and massive oedema extending from the lesion to the umbilicus, and involving the whole face. severe toxaemia and shock developed. bacillus anthracis was isolated from the lesion. prednisolone and dopamine failed to reverse the shock. the patient recovered completely with penicillin therapy. | 1987 | 3689685 |
| control measures for anthrax-contaminated hides. | | 1986 | 3698566 |
| macrophages are sensitive to anthrax lethal toxin through an acid-dependent process. | anthrax lethal toxin, which consists of two proteins, protective antigen and lethal factor, is lethal for experimental animals. this study describes the first in vitro system demonstrating lethality of the toxin. mouse peritoneal macrophages are killed within 1 h of exposure to the toxin. neither protein component alone shows any toxic activity. the minimal effective concentration of protective antigen and lethal factor was approximately equal to 10(-2) and approximately equal to 10(-3) microgra ... | 1986 | 3711080 |
| [anthrax 1985 in graubünden]. | | 1986 | 3726518 |
| fulminant community-acquired infectious diseases: diagnostic problems. | the processes presented here do not represent an all-inclusive list of fulminant infectious diseases. some of the more common acute, overwhelming infections of the central nervous system and lungs are covered elsewhere in this issue. we have selected less common, potentially catastrophic syndromes that might be recognized earlier if certain historical clues, physical findings, or laboratory abnormalities are appreciated. specific and effective therapy is available for most of the diseases we hav ... | 1986 | 3736273 |
| anthrax in man and cattle in bangladesh. | the occurrence of anthrax in 62 cattle and 27 humans in pabna milk shed areas of bangladesh was recorded during 1980-84. there were 62 sick animals: 43 (69%) died, 14 (23%) recovered with penicillin treatment and only five (8%) were slaughtered in a moribund stage, for human consumption. all 27 people who developed malignant pustules were cured with penicillin treatment within 14 days. | 1986 | 3746993 |
| [anthrax meningitis]. | anthrax meningitis may complicate cutaneous, inhalation, or gastrointestinal anthrax, although it occurs in less than 5% of patients. between 1935 and 1985 60 cases of human anthrax were notified in switzerland. this report of a fatal case in a 54-year-old woman is the third case of inhalation anthrax and the second of meningeal complication with cortical hemorrhages in our country. there was no known source of infection. the clinical, microbiological and histopathological profile, therapy and p ... | 1986 | 3764392 |
| primary throat anthrax. a report of six cases. | 73 cases of anthrax were recorded by the health office in the sivas region in the last 4 years. this paper presents a rare and severe clinical form of anthrax displaying diagnostic difficulties. six women aged between 16-46 were diagnosed as having throat anthrax and treated in the infectious diseases department of cumhuriyet university. the lesions were localized on the tonsils in 5 cases and on the base of the tongue in 1 case. the main clinical features were sore throat, dysphagia, fever, reg ... | 1986 | 3775269 |
| [use of mathematical theory in experiments evaluating the protective properties of antimicrobial preparations]. | mathematical design of multifactorial experiments in investigation of protective properties of antimicrobial drugs provided acceleration of preclinical study of new antimicrobial drugs, increasing its level and decreasing its size and cost. the advantage of the experiment mathematical design in investigation and estimation of protective properties of antimicrobial drugs was shown on a model of doxycycline chemotherapy of experimental anthracic infection caused by the vaccinal strain of the causa ... | 1986 | 3777891 |
| us defence: biological war still a threat. | | 1986 | 3785413 |
| epizootiology of anthrax and nyasa wildebeest in the selous game reserve, tanzania. | | 1987 | 3820425 |
| studies on anthrax in food animals and persons occupationally exposed to the zoonoses in eastern nigeria. | a total of 221 blood and 174 carcase swab samples obtained from food animals (cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and horses) slaughtered at urban and rural slaughter houses in nsukka area were studied. 51 blood samples and 180 samples of vesicle fluid were also collected from persons occupationally exposed (butchers/skinners, meat retailers, meat inspectors, veterinarians and tanners) to these animals and their products. all the samples were studied culturally and microscopically. confirmation of infect ... | 1985 | 3836213 |
| anthrax in lake rukwa valley, tanzania: a persistent problem. | an epidemic of 239 human cases of anthrax is reported in the rukwa valley area of tanzania. although the infecting source was meat from animals dying of the disease, no intestinal cases occurred. those infected were predominantly males between 15 and 35. the epidemic was seasonal, reaching a peak towards the end of the dry period when cattle were close grazing, and declining rapidly once the rains started and the grass began to grow. the increasing magnitude of annual epidemics suggests that the ... | 1985 | 3836310 |
| dual-parameter scatter-flow immunofluorescence analysis of bacillus spores. | using a commercial flow cytometer (cyto-fluorograf), narrow-forward-angle (nfa) light-scatter signals were detected for spore preparations of bacillus anthracis vollum, b. anthracis sterne, b. cereus nctc 8035, and b. subtilis var niger. in the flow immunofluorescence (fif) analysis of spores stained with fluorescein-conjugated hyperimmune antibody to b. anthracis vollum spores, fluorescence histograms could be acquired by selecting on nfa scatter. fluorescence data selected on ninety degree sca ... | 1985 | 3884295 |
| koch's postulates in relation to the work of jacob henle and edwin klebs. | | 1985 | 3903383 |
| infectious diseases of the camel: viruses, bacteria and fungi. | | 1985 | 3904917 |
| effects of anthrax toxin components on human neutrophils. | the virulence of bacillus anthracis has been attributed to a tripartite toxin composed of three proteins designated protective antigen, lethal factor, and edema factor. the effects of the toxin components on phagocytosis and chemiluminescence of human polymorphonuclear neutrophils were studied in vitro. initially, it was determined that the avirulent sterne strain of b. anthracis (radiation killed) required opsonization with either serum complement or antibodies against the sterne cell wall to b ... | 1985 | 3917427 |
| [differential affinity of pathogenic species of microorganisms for a set of lectins detectable by the sandwich method using fluorescein isothiocyanate (fitc)]. | the qualitative differences in the affinity of concanavalin a (con a), wheat-germ agglutinin (wga) and phaseolus vulgaris lectin to the surface of 10 microbial strains inducing various diseases in humans and agricultural animals have been demonstrated by means of the indirect immunofluorescence tests. enterobacteria, coxiella burnetii and bacillus anthracis have been found to possess pronounced affinity to con a and wga, while rickettsia prowazekii, francisella tularensis and brucella abortus, a ... | 1985 | 3920844 |
| crystallization of the protective antigen protein of bacillus anthracis. | the protective antigen protein, one of the three separate proteins constituting the exotoxin system of bacillus anthracis, has been crystallized in a form suitable for structural studies. the crystal form which is most amenable to x-ray analysis is orthorhombic, space group p2(1)2(1)2(1), a = 101.1 a, b = 95.4 a, c = 87.3 a, with one protective antigen monomer/asymmetric unit. the crystals diffract to approximately 3.0-a resolution. | 1985 | 3921540 |
| [diagnostic value of the ascoli test in anthrax]. | | 1985 | 3922626 |
| demonstration of a capsule plasmid in bacillus anthracis. | virulent and certain avirulent strains of bacillus anthracis harbor a plasmid, designated pxo2, which is involved in the synthesis of capsules. two classes of rough, noncapsulated (cap-) variants were isolated from the capsule-producing (cap+) pasteur vaccine strains atcc 6602 and atcc 4229. one class was cured of pxo2, and the other class still carried it. reversion to cap+ was demonstrable only in rough variants which had retained pxo2. proof that pxo2 is involved in capsule synthesis came fro ... | 1985 | 3926644 |
| identification of bacillus anthracis by api tests. | api and morphological tests were examined for their ability to distinguish between 37 bacillus anthracis strains (virulent and avirulent) and 194 strains of closely related bacillus species (b. cereus, b. mycoides and b. thuringiensis). in addition, 34 strains of b. anthracis and four of b. cereus were tested by several other methods that included capsule formation, ability to grow on a selective medium, and sensitivity to phage. it was found that virulent strains of b. anthracis were easily sep ... | 1985 | 3927004 |
| bacterial toxin vaccines. | a rebirth of interest and activity in vaccine development has occurred in recent years which is probably due to the persistence of threat to health by infectious diseases, as well as technological advances which have made possible new approaches to solve old problems. most work being done today with vaccine development against diseases caused entirely or in part by bacterial toxins falls into the categories of, attenuated organisms (whether by classical means or application of newly developed ge ... | 1985 | 3929492 |
| serum stimulation and repression of flow immunofluorescence staining of bacteria. | a flow cytometer was used to measure the fluorescence intensity of bacillus anthracis spores, b. subtilis spores and escherichia coli stained in suspension with specific rabbit fluorescein-conjugated antibody. the effect of normal sera and a number of other additives on the binding of conjugate to the surface of the homologous bacteria was assessed by measuring the median fluorescence intensity of the bacterial population in the reaction mixture. non-ionic detergent depressed binding of one conj ... | 1985 | 3934286 |
| oropharyngeal anthrax. | the first bacteriologically confirmed case of oropharyngeal anthrax is described. a 59-year-old male patient presented with sore throat and extensive swelling of the neck and anterior chest wall five hours after the ingestion of uncooked water buffalo meat. marked inflammation of the oropharynx and a small necrotic area in the left tonsil were found. culture taken from this area grew bacillus anthracis. in anthrax-susceptible areas, this acute illness should be added to the differential diagnose ... | 1985 | 3934300 |
| [comparative evaluation of methods for determining the sensitivity of the anthrax microbe to antibiotics]. | comparison of the results of determination of antibiotic sensitivity of the cultures of the anthrax causative agent with the methods of serial dilutions and paper disks revealed coincidence of their antibiotic sensitivity levels. the unimicon-s and agv media can be used for determination of antibiotic sensitivity of the anthrax causative agent by the above methods. | 1985 | 3937488 |
| investigations on the sporicidal and fungicidal activity of disinfectants. | the sporicidal and fungicidal activity of disinfectants was studied in a suspension test. glutaraldehyde 4%, sodium-dichloroisocyanurate-dihydrate (2400 ppm active chlorine) and peracetic acid 0.25% demonstrated after 30 min of exposure at 20 degrees c in the presence of 4% horse serum a clear activity against spores of bacillus cereus. under the same conditions formaldehyde 4% and glutaraldehyde 2% were also found to be sporicidal, but only after a longer time of exposure. spores of bacillus an ... | 1985 | 3938146 |
| [the use of gel chromatography for the isolation of biologically active toxin complex from bacillus anthrax]. | the multistep fractioning of the protein components from cultural filtrate of b. anthracis grown on casaminoacids containing medium was done. the scheme for preliminary purification of a toxin complex of b. anthracis against low and high molecular mass contaminants has been elaborated and includes ultrafiltration, gel chromatography in ultragel aca-202 and tsk-gel toyopal hw-55. biological activities of the complex,toxicity for laboratory animals and adenylate cyclase activity characteristic of ... | 1985 | 3939572 |
| dispersal, density and habitat preference of the blow-flies chrysomyia albiceps (wd.) and chrysomyia marginalis (wd.) (diptera: calliphoridae). | 16 000 chrysomyia albiceps and 52 000 c. marginalis adults were radioactively labelled with 32p-orthophosphate and released in the northern kruger national park, south africa. after a 1-week dispersal period 69 baited blow-fly traps were placed in different habitat types and at varying distances around the release point. c. albiceps were subsequently found to have covered up to 37.5 km and c. marginalis 63.5 km, suggesting dispersal rates per day of 2.20 km and 2.35 km for the 2 species, respect ... | 1986 | 3960486 |
| mating system for transfer of plasmids among bacillus anthracis, bacillus cereus, and bacillus thuringiensis. | to facilitate the analysis of genetic determinants carried by large resident plasmids of bacillus anthracis, a mating system was developed which promotes plasmid transfer among strains of b. anthracis, b. cereus, and b. thuringiensis. transfer of the selectable tetracycline resistance plasmid pbc16 and other plasmids from b. thuringiensis to b. anthracis and b. cereus recipients occurred during mixed incubation in broth. two plasmids, pxo11 and pxo12, found in b. thuringiensis were responsible f ... | 1985 | 3988702 |
| [evaluation of penicillin alone and penicillin combined with anti-anthrax serum in experimental anthrax in mice]. | in this study penicillin alone versus penicillin combined with anti-anthrax serum were compared in the treatment of experimental anthrax of mice. three groups of mice were inoculated intraperitoneally with the same suspension of bacillus anthracis. ten hours after the onset of infection the control group received no treatment, to the second group penicillin-g was injected every day, and the 3 rd group received penicillin-g plus anti-anthrax serum. the survival rate of the latter two groups was s ... | 1985 | 4010561 |
| [brucellosis and other zoonoses--1983]. | | 1985 | 4048495 |
| intestinal anthrax with bacteriological investigations. | | 1985 | 4067334 |
| a major epidemic of anthrax in zimbabwe. the experience at the beatrice road infectious diseases hospital, harare. | | 1985 | 4084971 |
| on the production and application of human and animal immunoglobulins in bulgaria. | | 1970 | 4098252 |
| synthesis of poly -glutamyl- -aminobutyric acids and their reactivity with antiserum against bacillus anthracis polypeptide. | | 1972 | 4112621 |
| antigenic determinants of proteins of defined sequences. | | 1972 | 4115104 |
| advances in the microbiology of m. leprae in the past century. | | 1973 | 4130571 |
| editorial: bongo-drum disease. | | 1974 | 4136655 |
| [etiological and epidemiologic evaluation of 474 cases of microbial meningitis observed at kinshasa (republic of zaire)]. | | 1973 | 4149611 |
| effect of dipicolinic acid on the haemolysis of human red blood cells. | | 1973 | 4150119 |
| release of the dipicolinic acid (dpa) from spores of bacillus stearothermophilus, b. megaterium and b. anthracis in presence of dyes. | | 1974 | 4151214 |
| release of dipicolinic acid (dpa) from spores of bacillus megaterium, b. stearothermophilus and b. anthracis in presence of bile acids. | | 1974 | 4152347 |
| cytological features of anthrax spores phagocytized in vitro by rabbit alveolar macrophages. | | 1966 | 4162853 |
| cutaneous anthrax. | | 1967 | 4165143 |
| antibiotic treatment of anthrax infection in mice. | quantitative measurements of mean time to death, percentage of survivors, and viable cell populations in the whole body were employed to determine the effects of penicillin, dihydrostreptomycin, chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline, chloramphenicol, and antiserum on the course of anthrax infection in mice. by all parameters tested, penicillin and dihydrostreptomycin were most effective in the treatment of the disease. therapy initiated in the later stages of the disease was more effective than tha ... | 1967 | 4166553 |
| fluorescein-labeled beta-glucosidase as a bacterial stain. | fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled beta-glucosidase was used as a simple staining reagent with selected gram-positive and gram-negative organisms. staining in situ appeared to be dependent on the presence of accessible glycosidic-type linkages in the bacterial cell wall. extensive wall damage or lysis did not occur when stained cells were suspended in washing and mounting solutions. the apparent specificity of labeled enzyme for wall substance was tested by blocking reactions, staining of isolat ... | 1967 | 4169543 |
| ultrastructural differences in the exosporium of the sterne and vollum strains of bacillus anthracis. | | 1968 | 4179555 |
| [a method for obtaining anthrax phages in high concentrations]. | | 1967 | 4184368 |
| serological diagnosis of anthrax. | | 1969 | 4184504 |
| electron microscopic evidence for a double hair-like nap appearing at low frequency on bacillus anthracis sterne spores. | | 1969 | 4190039 |
| [b. anthracis antigens in the gel precipitation reaction with anthrax precipitating serum and globulin of therapeutic serum]. | | 1969 | 4190328 |
| [methods of preparation of fluorescing antibodies for the diagnosis of anthrax]. | | 1968 | 4191109 |
| anthrax. | | 1973 | 4196339 |
| the optical rotatory properties of poly- -d-glutamic acid. | | 1973 | 4196977 |
| conformational studies of anthrax polypeptide, subtilis polypeptide, and synthetic poly- -l-glutamic acid. | | 1973 | 4196978 |
| [formation of extracellular rnases by microorganisms on a synthetic medium]. | | 1972 | 4197399 |
| [antimicrobial properties of cranberry]. | | 1972 | 4198007 |
| [microbiological assay of various phenothiazine derivatives]. | | 1972 | 4198329 |
| an outbreak of anthrax at the chester zoological gardens. | | 1973 | 4198672 |
| [studies on the activity of proteolytic enzymes in bacillus anthracis and bacillus cereus]. | | 1973 | 4199573 |
| [ozone for disinfection of water contaminated with vegetative and spore forms of bacteria, fungi, and viruses]. | | 1973 | 4200343 |
| anthrax in iran. | | 1973 | 4200616 |
| anthrax in louisiana, 1971: an evaluation of the sterne strain anthrax vaccine. | | 1973 | 4200690 |
| anthrax in louisiana, 1971: epizootiologic study. | | 1973 | 4200691 |
| anthrax. biological and immunological principles of diagnosis and prevention. communication 7. diagnosis of anthrax by means of anthraxin. | | 1973 | 4200696 |
| [comparison of the antimicrobial properties of sorbic and beta-styrylacrylic acids and their sodium salts]. | | 1973 | 4205237 |
| [the physico-chemical properties and allergenic activity of peptides of various species of bacteria]. | | 1973 | 4205258 |
| repression of alkaline phosphatase synthesis by adenine, adenosine and adenine nucleotides in an adenine auxotroph of bacillus anthracis. | | 1973 | 4205980 |
| a cryptic prophage carried by bacillus cereus. | | 1973 | 4205982 |
| microbes. 4. robert koch: anthrax bacilli isolated. | | 1973 | 4206256 |
| [submicroscopic structure of the bacterial cell wall (review of the literature)]. | | 1973 | 4206610 |
| [a study of the protective antigen of b. anthracis for the purpose of using it in diagnosis]. | | 1973 | 4207092 |
| [the feasibility of using jet injector bip-4 for immunization of laboratory animals with sti anthrax vaccine]. | | 1973 | 4207093 |
| an anthrax outbreak in berkshire. | | 1974 | 4207208 |
| carbuncle: discussion and a report of two cases. | | 1974 | 4207521 |
| [exotoxins and enzyme systems]. | | 1973 | 4208254 |
| [microbial agents and therapy of endometritis in cows]. | | 1973 | 4208324 |
| [a fluorescence serological rapid test for the determination of spores from bacillus anthracis using the micro culture method on nucleopore filters]. | | 1974 | 4210755 |
| [antibiotic from bac. cereus var. mycoides. 1]. | | 1974 | 4211301 |
| possible role of adenosine deaminase in suboptimal growth of the bacillus anthracis adenine auxotroph mutant. | | 1973 | 4212252 |
| a sporulation medium for bacillus anthracis. | | 1974 | 4212901 |
| [antagonistic effects of monocins released by listeria monocytogenes]. | | 1974 | 4213616 |
| (14c)adenine uptake into bacillus anthracis adenylsuccinate lyase deficient mutant. | | 1974 | 4215289 |
| a highly specific phage attacking bacillus anthracis strain sterne. | | 1974 | 4215291 |