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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 ...
James C. Pile +3 more
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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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Biological warfare agents as threats to potable water.
Environmental Health Perspectives, 1999 Nearly all known biological warfare agents are intended for aerosol application. Although less effective as potable water threats, many are potentially capable of inflicting heavy casualties when ingested. Significant loss of mission capability can be anticipated even when complete recovery is possible. Properly maintained field army water purification
W. D. Burrows, Sara Renner
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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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International Deployment of Microbial Pest Control Agents: Falling Between the Cracks of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Cartagena Biosafety Protocol? [PDF]
, 2013 This paper considers one tangled web of conflicting developments. It involves the popular desire to replace chemical pesticides with more “natural” biological control strategies, plus a slowly emerging awareness of a less benign side to microbial pest ...
Knudsen, Guy R.
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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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Agroterrorism in the U.S.: An Overview
EDIS, 2009 Revised! FSHN-05-21, a 4-page fact sheet by R. Goodrich Schneider, K.R. Schneider, C.D. Webb, M. Hubbard, and D.L. Archer, discusses the use of biological agents in a deliberate, harmful attack, or terrorism using the weapons of biological warfare ...
Renée M. Goodrich Schneider +4 more
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Fully integrated digital microfluidics platform for automated immunoassay; a versatile tool for rapid, specific detection of a wide range of pathogens [PDF]
, 2019 © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.With the tangible threat posed by the ...
Coudron, Loic +6 more
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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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Fluorescence Methods for the Detection of Bioaerosols in Their Civil and Military Applications
Sensors, 2023 The article presents the history of the development and the current state of the apparatus for the detection of interferents and biological warfare simulants in the air with the laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) method.
Mirosław Kwaśny +4 more
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