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A clinical approach to an unidentified aerosolized bioterrorism agent: a narrative review for emergency providers [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2023 The current heightened international political climate is accompanied by increased risk of chemical or biological agent weaponization. Historical accounts of biochemical warfare are extensive, and considering the recent use of such agents for targeted ...
Rashed Alremeithi +4 more
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Pharmaceuticals, 2022 The present work reveals a comprehensive decontamination study on real and simulated biological and chemical warfare agents (BCWA). The emphasis was on evaluating the antimicrobial activity against real biological warfare agents, such as Bacillus ...
Raluca-Elena Ginghina +12 more
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Anthrax as a Potential Biological Warfare Agent [PDF]
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1998 Anthrax is a zoonotic illness recognized since antiquity. Today, human anthrax has been all but eradicated from the industrialized world, with the vast majority of practitioners in the United States unlikely to have seen a case. Unfortunately, the disease remains endemic in many areas of the world, and anthrax poses a threat as a mass casualty ...
J C, Pile +3 more
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Critical analysis of doctrinal approaches to the definition of “biological terrorism”
Bulletin of Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, 2023 With the purpose of formulating a universal definition of the “biological terrorism” concept, the author clarifies the content and features of the generic concept of “terrorism”.
О. V. Shamsutdinov
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Microbial forensics: A potential tool for investigation and response to bioterrorism
Health Sciences Review, 2022 Bioterrorism is the intentional dissemination of bio-warfare agents in a population to cause illness or death. Microbial forensics plays an essential role in the investigation of bio-terror attacks.
Tahir ul Gani Mir +4 more
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Synthesis and Decontamination Effect on Chemical and Biological Agents of Benzoxonium-Like Salts
Toxics, 2021 Benzoxonium chloride belongs to the group of quaternary ammonium salts, which have been widely used for decades as disinfectants because of their high efficacy, low toxicity, and thermal stability.
Aneta Markova +10 more
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Defence Science Journal, 2006 There is a long historic record of use of biological warfare (BW) agents by warring countries against their enemies. However, the frequency of their use has increased since the beginning of the twentieth century. World war I witnessed the use of anthrax agent against human beings and animals by Germans, followed by large-scale field trials by Japanese ...
Dev Vrat Kamboj +2 more
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Immunization against Potential Biological Warfare Agents [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2000 The intentional release of biological agents by belligerents or terrorists is a possibility that has recently attracted increased attention. Law enforcement agencies, military planners, public health officials, and clinicians are gaining an increasing awareness of this potential threat.
T J, Cieslak +6 more
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Protein Biotoxins of Military Significance
Acta Medica, 2006 There is a spectrum of several threat agents, ranging from nerve agents and mustard agents to natural substances, such as biotoxins and new, synthetic, bioactive molecules produced by the chemical industry, to the classical biological warfare agents. The
Jiří Patočka, Ladislav Středa
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2002 The potential threat of biological warfare with a specific agent is proportional to the susceptibility of the population to that agent. Preventing disease after exposure to a biological agent is partially a function of the immunity of the exposed ...
Arturo Casadevall
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