Fatal inhalational anthrax in a 94-year-old Connecticut woman

JAMA

Volumn 287, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 863-868

  Barakat, Lydia A ^a   Quentzel, Howard L ^a   Jernigan, John A ^b   Kirschke, David L ^b   Griffith, Kevin ^b   Spear, Stephen M ^a   Kelley, Katherine ^d   Barden, Diane ^d   Mayo, Donald ^d   Stephens, David S ^c   Popovic, Tanja ^b   Marston, Chung ^b   Zaki, Sherif R ^b   Guarner, Jeanette ^b   Shieh, Wun Ju ^b   Wayne Carver Ii, H ^e   Meyer, Richard F ^b   Swerdlow, David L ^b   Mast, Eric E ^b   Hadler, James L ^d  

^a GRIFFIN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Strategic Resources Management   (United States)

^e Connecticut State Medical Examiner's Office ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN; SULTAMICILLIN;

AGED; ANTHRAX; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTEREMIA; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHALATION; LUNG EDEMA; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037138781     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.287.7.863     Document Type: Article

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