Wednesday, March 21, 2012

"a landmark achievement in pathology"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=inhalation%20anthrax%20pulmonary%20pathology%20david%20walker


Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2012 Mar;136(3):235.

Sverdlovsk Revisited: Pulmonary Pathology of Inhalational Anthrax Versus Anthraxlike Bacillus cereus Pneumonia.

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Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-0609.

"The case report of rapidly progressive, fatal pneumonia caused by Bacillus cereus producing anthrax lethal toxin and edema toxin represents a landmark achievement in pathology.1 The investigators' decisiveness and speed in applying a contemporary genome sequencing approach were remarkably effective in establishing a diagnosis and determining the absence of a public health emergency."


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