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Anthrax

CHALLENGES IN THE USE OF ANTHRAX VACCINE ADSORBED (AVA) IN THE PEDIATRIC POPULATION AS A COMPONENT OF POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS (PEP)
A REPORT OF THE NATIONAL BIODEFENSE SCIENCE BOARD October 2011 (pdf) [10/28/2011]

Community Storage of Anthrax-Preventing Antibiotics Should Be Determined by State, Local Agencies on Basis of Risk Level and Dispensing Capabilities, Says New Report
National-Academies [10/1/2011]

Novel Anthrax Vaccine And Antitoxin Being Developed With Federal Support
HHS [9/15/2011]

Use of Anthrax Vaccine in the United States (pdf)
Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) [3/11/2011]

Emergent BioSolutions Starts Phase I Clinical Trial for Third Generation Anthrax Vaccine
[3/11/2011]

Development Of A Highly Efficacious Vaccinia Based Dual Vaccine Against Smallpox And Anthrax, Two Important Bioterror Entities
PNAS [10/25/2010]

Biologists Use Fruit Flies To Reveal Secrets Of How Anthrax Kills
UC San Diego study [10/14/2010]

Historical Distribution and Molecular Diversity of Bacillus anthracis, Kazakhstan
May 2010: EID [5/11/2010]

Single Host Gene May Hold Key To Treating Both Ebola And Anthrax Infections
Single host gene may hold key to treating both ebola and anthrax infections [8/22/2009]

CDC Anthrax Q & A Preventive Therapy
CDC Anthrax Q & A: Preventive Therapy [5/8/2009]

Public Health And Clinical Guidelines For Anthrax
CDC EID [3/28/2009]
Anthrax Bepast Newsletters

N-95 Respirator fit-testing required for US postal carriers to receive a "Household Antibiotic Kit" (doxycycline) for use during an Anthrax attack
[10/20/2008]

22 U.S. contracts for “Covered Countermeasures” against anthrax listed in HHS PREP Act Declaration
[10/4/2008]

US to make antibiotics available for postal workers and household members as CRI preparedness for anthrax
[10/3/2008]

Unsubstantiated terror alert for US hospitals: anthrax or explosives
November 14, 2002: Daniel R. Lucey, MD, MPH, Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [1/1/2007]

Anthrax Antitoxin Antibody: Second Source to be Added to Stockpile
July 26, 2006: Daniel R. Lucey, MD, MPH, Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [1/1/2007]

Additives or Not: The Anthrax Mailed in October 2001 Could Form an Aerosol and Could Reaerosolize
October 17 2001: Daniel R. Lucey, MD, MPH, Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [1/1/2007]

Drainage of pleural fluid in patients with inhalational anthrax: a critical need to be anticipated as part of combination therapy
May 24, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey, MD, MPH, Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [5/23/2005]

Anthrax: Key Reminders and Updates for Clinicians
March 17, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey, MD, MPH, Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [3/16/2005]

A New Staging System for Inhalational Anthrax: Rewriting the Textbooks
January 24, 2005: Daniel R. Lucey, MD, MPH, Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [1/23/2005]

Anthrax Vaccine After Exposure to Aerosolized Anthrax Spores
September 14, 2004: Daniel R. Lucey, MD, MPH, Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [11/13/2004]

Anthrax-Specific Intravenous Hyperimmune Globulin
November 28, 2002: Daniel R. Lucey, MD, MPH, Center for Biologic Counterterrorism and Emerging Diseases [11/27/2002]
Anthrax Disease Information

Q & A on Anthrax Vaccine
[2/11/2009]

Medical Progress: Anthrax
New England Journal of Medicine, September 9, 1999 [2/11/2009]

Mortality Of Anthrax Attack
A mathematical model suggests a single anthrax attack could cost more than 100,000 lives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2003, as reported by Reuters Health [2/11/2009]

CDC:Anthrax of the Gastrointestinal Tract
From Emerging Infectious Diseases, Thira Sirisanthana and Arthur E. Brown, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand; and Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand [2/11/2009]

CDC: Adverse Events From Anthrax Prophylaxis
Update: Adverse Events Associated with Anthrax Prophylaxis Among Postal Employees – New Jersey, New York City, and the District of Columbia Metropolitan Area, 2001 [2/11/2009]

Anthrax protocols at Washington Hospital Center
Anthrax protocols being followed at WHC in Washington, DC, where many exposed or potentially exposed patients have sought treatment [2/11/2009]

Anthrax Vaccine Makeover
Science News [10/4/2008]

Effects Of A Reduced Dose Schedule And Intramuscular Administration Of Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed on Immunogennicity and Safety at 7 Months
JAMA Abstract [9/30/2008]

Anthrax Toxins Inhibit Neutrophil Signaling Pathways In Brain Endothelium And Contribute To The Pathogenesis Of Meningitis
PLoS ONE article [9/5/2008]

Anthrax Pediatric Levofloxacin Prophylaxis (pdf)
[5/21/2008]

Anthrax Fact Sheet
UPMC-Center for Biosecurity [1/7/2008]

Recognition And Management Of Anthrax — An Update
NEJM [1/5/2008]

Potent Antitumor Activity Of A Urokinase Activated Engineered Anthrax Toxin
PNAC Shihui Liu, Hannah Aaronson, David J. Mitola, Stephen H. Leppla, and Thomas H. Bugge [1/5/2008]

Anthrax
Emedicine article [1/5/2008]

Anthrax Lethal Toxin-Mediated Killing of Human and Murine Dendritic Cells Impairs the Adaptive Immune Response
October 2005: Abdelkrim Alileche, Evan R Serfass, Stefan M Muehlbauer, Steven A Porcelli, and Jürgen Brojatsch [8/11/2003]

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