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Biological Agents: Weapons of Warfare and Bioterrorism
Molecular Diagnosis, 2001The use of microorganisms as agents of biological warfare is considered inevitable for several reasons, including ease of production and dispersion, delayed onset, ability to cause high rates of morbidity and mortality, and difficulty in diagnosis. Biological agents that have been identified as posing the greatest threat are variola major (smallpox ...
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Aerosolized biologic toxins as agents of warfare and terrorism
Respiratory Care Clinics, 2004Incomplete participation in the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention treaty and noncompliance by several signatory nations makes the malicious use of aerosolized biologic toxins a continuing threat. Unfortunately,prompt diagnosis of toxin exposure may be confounded by a paucity of pathognomonic features and limited diagnostics, but the scenario of ...
Michael, Zapor, Joel T, Fishbain
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Trichothecenes and yellow rain: Possible biological warfare agents
BioEssays, 1986Abstract‘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.
W V, Dashek +4 more
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The BARC biosensor applied to the detection of biological warfare agents
Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2000The 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 ...
R L, Edelstein +6 more
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Antimicrobials for Biological Warfare Agents
2005Biological 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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Biological Warfare Agents, Toxins, Vectors and Pests as Biological Terrorism Agents
2004The threat and use of biological agents for warfare and terrorism purposes has a long history. As human, animal and plant pathogens and toxin lists will be hard to define we propose several tables of enlisted pathogens and toxins with important criteria on the basis of which a decision can be made to include in or exclude from a list of biological ...
Slavko Bokan, Zvonko Orahovec
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Medical Countermeasures to Biological Warfare Agents
2001For 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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SAMPLING EQUIPMENT FOR BIOLOGICAL WARFARE AGENTS
1964Abstract : 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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