Three rare cases of anthrax arising from the same source

Journal of Infection

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Babamahmoodi, Farhang ^a   Aghabarari, Fereshteh ^a   Arjmand, Abbas ^a   Ashrafi, G Hossein ^b  

^a MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthrax; Gastrointestinal; Intestinal; Meningitis; Oropharyngeal

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHRAX; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONVALESCENCE; COOKING; DEATH; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEAT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SHEEP; SKIN INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTHRAX; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CHILD; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; OROPHARYNX; PHARYNGITIS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES;

EID: 33748705726     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2005.12.018     Document Type: Article

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