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Antimicrobials for Biological Warfare Agents

2005
Biological warfare (BW) agents also cause natural human or animal diseases. The natural forms of these agents can often be treated successfully by using specific antimicrobial agents (for example, see Table 1 and Table 2). In many cases, the antimicrobial susceptibilities and perhaps the most efficacious therapy of the resultant infections are well ...
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Terahertz signatures of biological-warfare-agent simulants

SPIE Proceedings, 2004
ABSTRACT This work presents spectroscopic characterization results for biological simulant materials measured in the terahertz gap. Signature data have been collected between 3 cm -1 and 10 cm -1 for toxin Ovalbumin, bacteria Erwinia herbicola, Bacillus Subtilis lyophilized cells and RNA MS2 phage, BioGene.
Tatyana Khromova, Alexander Majewski, Geoff Ediss, Ramakrishnan Partasarathy, Jeffrey L. Hesler, Rene Abreu, S. K. Pan, Tatiana Globus, Dwight L. Woolard   +8 more
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Electrochemical Biosensors for Detection of Biological Warfare Agents

Electroanalysis, 2003
AbstractThis review discusses current development in electrochemical biosensors for detection of biological warfare agents. This could include bacteria, viruses and toxins that are aerosoled deliberately in air, food or water to spread terrorism and cause disease or death to humans, animals or plants.
Ebtisam Wilkins, Jasmin Shah
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Medical Countermeasures to Biological Warfare Agents

2001
For nearly 50 years, NATO nations have developed biological weapons or countermeasures to biological weapons [1], both efforts pursued in response to the threat of possible first use of biological warfare agents against the alliance. Prior to the termination of the biological warfare programs of NATO members in the late 1960s, an offensive capability ...
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Trichothecenes and yellow rain: Possible biological warfare agents

BioEssays, 1986
Abstract‘Yellow Rain’, an alleged biological warfare agent thought to be utilized in parts of both South East Asia and Afghanistan, may be composed in part of the mycotoxins, trichothecenes. However, more recent analyses suggest that the ‘Rain’ was mainly honey bee excreta.
J. E. Mayfield, William V. Dashek, A. Bata, Gerald C. Llewellyn, Charles E. O’Rear   +4 more
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Cutaneous Manifestations of Biological Warfare and Related Threat Agents

Archives of Dermatology, 1999
The specter of biological warfare (BW) looms large in the minds of many Americans. The US government has required that emergency response teams in more than 100 American cities be trained by the year 2001 to recognize and contain a BW attack. The US military is requiring active duty soldiers to receive immunization against anthrax.
Edward M. Eitzen, Thomas W. McGovern, George W. Christopher   +2 more
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SAMPLING EQUIPMENT FOR BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENTS

1964
Abstract : The Drager pump of the German sampling equipment and the vacuum pump of the American equipment are suitable for taking air samples to examine their germ content. The US equipment, however, has several advantages over the German equipment. These consist (1) of the greater capacity (ca.
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The BARC biosensor applied to the detection of biological warfare agents

Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2000
The Bead ARray Counter (BARC) is a multi-analyte biosensor that uses DNA hybridization, magnetic microbeads, and giant magnetoresistive (GMR) sensors to detect and identify biological warfare agents. The current prototype is a table-top instrument consisting of a microfabricated chip (solid substrate) with an array of GMR sensors, a chip carrier board ...
Cy R. Tamanaha, Michael M. Miller, R. L. Edelstein, Lloyd J. Whitman, David R. Baselt, Paul E. Sheehan, Richard J. Colton   +6 more
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Detection of Biological Warfare Agents Using Biosensors

2020
This chapter surveys the current detection technologies used in commercially available biosensors for identifying biological warfare agents (BAs). Much of the content presented was obtained from the open-source literature and is an introduction to biosensor fundamentals. A glance at these technologies is presented with emphasis placed on the principles
Abanoub Mikhael, Joseph Banoub
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The Agents of Biological Warfare

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1997
Kelly J. Davis, Peter Vogel, David L. Fritz, K. Kuehl, Thomas W. Geisbert   +4 more
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