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  2. Anthrax - Wikipedia

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    Anthrax was first tested as a biological warfare agent by Unit 731 of the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuria during the 1930s; some of this testing involved intentional infection of prisoners of war, thousands of whom died. Anthrax, designated at the time as Agent N, was also investigated by the Allies in the 1940s. [105]

  3. Anthrax toxin - Wikipedia

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    Anthrax is a disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, a spore-forming, Gram positive, rod-shaped bacterium (Fig. 1).The lethality of the disease is caused by the bacterium's two principal virulence factors: (i) the polyglutamic acid capsule, which is anti-phagocytic, and (ii) the tripartite protein toxin, called anthrax toxin.

  4. Bacillus anthracis - Wikipedia

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    The symptoms in anthrax depend on the type of infection and can take anywhere from 1 day to more than 2 months to appear. All types of anthrax have the potential, if untreated, to spread throughout the body and cause severe illness and even death. [24] Four forms of human anthrax disease are recognized based on their portal of entry.

  5. List of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    First diagnosis of aHUS is often made in the context of an initial, complement-triggering infection, and Shiga-toxin has also been implicated as a trigger that identifies patients with aHUS. Treatment involves supportive care and may include dialysis , steroids , blood transfusions , and plasmapheresis .

  6. Koch's postulates - Wikipedia

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    Nonetheless, Koch was already aware that the causative agent of cholera, Vibrio cholerae, could be found in both sick and healthy people, invalidating his first postulate. [ 6 ] [ 9 ] Since the 1950s, Koch's postulates have been treated as obsolete for epidemiology research, but they are still taught to emphasize historical approaches to ...

  7. Not just a bioweapon: Anthrax outbreak kills dozens of ... - AOL

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    Some people may contract anthrax by eating meat that is infected, and experience swelling of the neck or glands, sore throat, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, flushing and red eyes, stomach ...

  8. Human pathogen - Wikipedia

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    Bacillus anthracis — the causative agent of anthrax in humans and animals; Clostridium botulinum — releases the most powerful neurotoxin leading to death from botulism; Mycobacterium tuberculosis — the causative agent of most cases of tuberculosis; Mycobacterium leprae — the bacterium that causes leprosy (Hansen's disease)

  9. Robert Koch - Wikipedia

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    Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (/ k ɒ x / KOKH; [1] [2] German: [ˈʁoːbɛʁt ˈkɔx] ⓘ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist.As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax, he is regarded as one of the main founders of modern bacteriology.