Anthrax

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causitive agent

Bacillus anthracis: gram positive, endospore forming rod

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signs and symptoms

  • headache

  • fever

  • malasie

  • bleeding in the intestine from mucous membranes

  • hemorrhagic lung.

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diagnosis

  • culturing bacterium on blood agar

  • performing gram stain

  • phage typing

  • fluorescent antibody testing

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prognosis

fatal if not treated

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Prevention

vaccination with the purified toxoid if:

they have occupational contact with livestoc or products

they are members of the military

requires yearly inoculatoin and boosters

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treatment

  • prophylactic antibiotics

  • doxycycline

  • ciprofloxacin

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Transmission

handling soil or livestock or products infected with it (reservoir is soil)