Clinical Presentation of Inhalational Anthrax Following Bioterrorism Exposure: Report of 2 Surviving Patients

The use of anthrax as a weapon of biological terrorism has moved from theory to reality in recent weeks. Following processing of a letter containing anthrax spores that had been mailed to a US senator, 5 cases of inhalational anthrax have occurred among postal workers employed at a major postal faci...

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Veröffentlicht in:	JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2001-11, Vol.286 (20), p.2549-2553
Hauptverfasser:	Mayer, Thom A, Bersoff-Matcha, Susan, Murphy, Cecele, Earls, James, Harper, Scott, Pauze, Denis, Nguyen, Michael, Rosenthal, Jonathan, Cerva, Jr, Donald, Druckenbrod, Glenn, Hanfling, Dan, Fatteh, Naaz, Nayyar, Ashna, Berman, Elise L
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anthrax Anthrax - blood Anthrax - diagnosis Anthrax - therapy Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use Bacillus anthracis - isolation & purification Biological & chemical weapons Bioterrorism Blood - microbiology Ciprofloxacin - therapeutic use Clindamycin - therapeutic use District of Columbia Drug therapy Dyspnea - complications Fever - complications Humans Lymphatic Diseases - diagnostic imaging Male Mediastinal Diseases - diagnostic imaging Medical diagnosis Medical screening Middle Aged Occupational Exposure Pleural Effusion - diagnostic imaging Polymerase Chain Reaction Postal Service Radiography, Thoracic Respiratory Tract Infections - blood Respiratory Tract Infections - diagnosis Respiratory Tract Infections - microbiology Respiratory Tract Infections - therapy Rifampin - therapeutic use Spores, Bacterial - isolation & purification Survivors Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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