Sentence examples for study of anthrax from inspiring English sources
The older drugs were also shown to be as effective as Cipro in a 1997 Pentagon study of anthrax in rhesus monkeys.
Since September 11 , 2001 significant funding has been directed toward the study of anthrax and other microbes, like the one that causes plague, which could be used as bioweapons.
Sirisanthana et al. (17) in a serologic study of anthrax in northern Thailand and Harrison et al. (18) in a serologic study of anthrax in Paraguay described use of both ELISA and Western blot to retrospectively evaluate seroconversion in cutaneous and oral-oropharyngeal anthrax.
The best estimates for rates of AEs from doxycycline are based on estimates cited in a study of anthrax prophylaxis related adverse events (for both doxycycline and ciprofloxacin) (33 ).
But the agency says laboratory studies of anthrax bacteria from victims of the attacks show that the germs have some resistance to penicillin, which could make it less effective than other antibiotics.
"The whole secondary spread is very dubious to me," said Dr. Philip S. Brachman, the researcher who did the pioneering studies of anthrax in the United States in the 1950's following an outbreak at a textile mill in New Hampshire.
In vivo studies of anthrax infection measured high concentrations of toxin components in the blood of infected animals [2], [3].
Koch reviewed the "law of increasing virulence," originally enunciated by Casimir Davaine in studies of anthrax, that an initial animal passage could "select" bacteria that were more pathogenic than those in the original tissue source [7].
In addition, the Sterne strain has been widely used in both in vitro and in vivo studies of anthrax infection as it causes lethal disease similar to the encapsulated B. anthracis strain in mice [11].
Despite the recognized value of serologic data for disease surveillance and epidemiologic investigations, serologic analysis has only rarely been used in studies of anthrax.
