| gastrointestinal anthrax after an animal-hide drumming event - new hampshire and massachusetts, 2009. | on december 24, 2009, a woman aged 24 years from new hampshire was confirmed to have gastrointestinal anthrax on the basis of clinical findings and a bacillus anthracis blood culture isolate. her symptoms began on december 5. one day before symptom onset, she had participated in a drumming event at a community organization's building where animal-hide drums of multiple ages and origins were played. this report describes the case and subsequent investigation, which identified 84 persons potential ... | 2010 | 20651643 |
| Molecular epidemiology of anthrax cases associated with recreational use of animal hides and yarn in the United States. | To determine potential links between the clinical isolate to animal products and their geographic origin, we genotyped (MLVA-8, MVLA-15, and canSNP analysis) 80 environmental and 12 clinical isolates and 2 clinical specimens from five cases of anthrax (California in 1976 [n?=?1], New York in 2006 [n?=?1], Connecticut in 2007 [n?=?2], and New Hampshire in 2009[n?=?1]) resulting from recreational handling of animal products. For the California case, four clinical isolates were identified as MLVA-8 ... | 2011 | 22174783 |
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