Anthrax Author: Sandro Cinti, MD; Barbara Robinson-Dunn, PhD; Niklas Mackler, MD
Module updated - 2009-11-19
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Prevention
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Non-drug Therapy
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Newly Cited References
2009-07-09Raxibacumab for the treatment of inhalational anthrax.
2008-10-01Effects of a reduced dose schedule and intramuscular administration of anthrax vaccine adsorbed on immunogenicity and safety at 7 months: a randomized trial.
2008-04-01Conference report on public health and clinical guidelines for anthrax.
2007-04-01A case of naturally acquired inhalation anthrax: clinical care and analyses of anti-protective antigen immunoglobulin G and lethal factor.
2006-02-21Systematic review: a century of inhalational anthrax cases from 1900 to 2005.
2005-01-01Anthrax.
2004-08-01Selection of Bacillus anthracis isolates resistant to antibiotics.
1972-11-01Penicillin therapy of human cutaneous anthrax.
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Barbara Robinson-Dunn, PhD has no financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or health-care related organizations. Nicholas John Vietri, MD, MS, editorial consultant, has no financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or health-care related organizations. Niklas Mackler, MD has no financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or health-care related organizations. Sandro Cinti, MD has no financial relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or health-care related organizations.
Darren B. Taichman, MD, PhD, Editor, PIER, has received grant support from Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd , and honoraria for continuing medical education grand rounds and lectures given.

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