| anthrax: pathological aspects in autopsy cases in shiraz, islamic republic of iran, 1960-2001. | anthrax, like tuberculosis, shows a new epidemic spread in industrialized countries, revealing some ambiguous aspects to the disease and providing new challenges to medicine. shiraz university of medical sciences has records of 7130 autopsies performed in the past 40 years, 33 of which are anthrax cases. we reviewed all the pathology slides of these cases and classified the organs involved in a search for unrecognized microscopic findings. the most common cause of death was sepsis, caused by org ... | 2004 | 16201706 |