Anthrax

  • Anthrax Capsule Vaccine Protects from Lethal Infection in Animal Model
    Vaccination with the anthrax capsule—a naturally occurring component of the bacterium that causes the disease—protected monkeys from lethal anthrax infection, according to U.S. Army scientists. The study, which appears in the Jan. 20, 2012 print edition of the journal ...More
    4 weeks ago
    Posted in News
  • Natural Killer Cells Could be Key to Anthrax Defense
    One of the things that makes inhalational anthrax so worrisome for biodefense experts is how quickly a relatively small number of inhaled anthrax spores can turn into a lethal infection. By the time an anthrax victim realizes he or she has something worse than the flu and ...More
    October 27, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • Community Storage of Anthrax-Preventing Antibiotics Should be Determined by State
    As part of preparations for a possible large-scale anthrax attack, public health officials on the state and local levels should determine where and how anthrax-preventing antibiotics should be stored in their communities, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. ...More
    September 30, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Novel Anthrax Vaccine and Antitoxin Being Developed
    The advanced development of a novel next-generation anthrax vaccine and a new type of anthrax antitoxin have received support through new contracts funded the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). ...More
    September 15, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • When Anthrax Isn't Anthrax
    Bacillus cereus is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium that rarely causes problems for humans. A strain of the bacterium picked up genes that encode the anthrax toxin. Image by Scott Rose. A patient who had symptoms of inhalation anthrax infection and who eventually ...More
    August 23, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • Nano Detector for Deadly Anthrax Being Developed
    An automatic and portable detector that takes just 15 minutes to analyze a sample suspected of contamination with anthrax is being developed by U.S. researchers. The technology amplifies any anthrax DNA present in the sample and can reveal the presence of just 40 ...More
    July 7, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • How the Immune System Fights Back Against Anthrax Infections
    Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have uncovered how the body’s immune system launches its survival response to the notorious and deadly bacterium anthrax. The findings, ...More
    June 16, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Antibiotics Cure Anthrax in Animal Models
    In the absence of early antibiotic treatment, respiratory anthrax is fatal. The 2001 bioterrorism attacks in the U.S. killed four people, out of 22 infected (10 of them with respiratory anthrax), despite massive antibiotic administration, probably because therapy did not ...More
    April 22, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Forensic Genomics Used to Investigate 2001 Anthrax Attacks
    Researchers at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and collaborators at the FBI, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and Northern Arizona University have published the first scientific paper based on ...More
    March 7, 2011
    Posted in News
  • NIH Scientists Show How Anthrax Bacteria Impair Immune Response
    Researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have determined a key mechanism by which Bacillus anthracis bacteria initiate anthrax infection despite being greatly outnumbered by immune system ...More
    November 17, 2010
    Posted in News
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