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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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Effects of chemical and biological warfare agent decontaminants on trace survival: Impact on fingermarks deposited on paper. [PDF]

J Forensic Sci
Radgen-Morvant I, Kummer N, Curty C, Delémont O.   +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, Atif Khurshid Wani, Nahid Akhtar, Saikat Sena, Jaskaran Singh   +4 more
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Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents in Southeast Asia

Human Pathology, 1983
Wagner, Bernard M.
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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, Michaela Hympanova, Marek Matula, Lukas Prchal, Radek Sleha, Marketa Benkova, Lenka Pulkrabkova, Ondrej Soukup, Zuzana Krocova, Daniel Jun, Jan Marek   +10 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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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, G W, Christopher, M G, Kortepeter, J R, Rowe, J A, Pavlin, R C, Culpepper, E M, Eitzen   +6 more
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Passive Antibody Administration (Immediate Immunity) as a Specific Defense Against Biological Weapons

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, Aneta Bombalska, Miron Kaliszewski, Maksymilian Włodarski, Krzysztof Kopczyński   +4 more
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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, Keith R. Schneider, C. D. Webb, Mike Hubbard, Douglas L. Archer   +4 more
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