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Guidelines for the surveillance and control of anthrax in humans and animals
Department of Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response.
xiv, 110 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm.
Statement of commercial impartiality -- Disease and its importance -- Etiology and ecology -- Spores and vegetative forms -- Climate and other influencing factors -- Strains -- Anthrax in animals -- Host range and susceptibility -- Incidence of anthrax in animals -- Transmission in animals -- Pathogenesis and symptoms -- Diagnosis in animals -- Anthrax in man -- Incidence -- Susceptibility: data for risk assessments -- Epidemiology and transmission: the forms of anthrax -- Clinical disease -- Pathogenesis and pathology -- Toxin as the cause of death -- Virulence factors of B. anthracis -- Bacteriology -- Detection and isolation -- Identification and confirmation -- Treatment -- Treatment of animals -- Treatment of humans -- Control -- Disposal of anthrax carcasses (point x in figure 3) -- Infection control in the management of human anthrax cases -- Disinfection, decontamination and disposal of infected/contaminated material (site Y in figure 3) -- Prophylaxis -- Intersectoral issues: the question of eradication -- Surveillance -- Public health surveillance of anthrax in humans -- Veterinary surveillance of anthrax in animals -- Recommended data analyses, presentation, reports -- Strategies of anthrax surveillance in animals.
principal author, P.C.B. Turnbull ; contributors, R. Böhm [and others].
Includes bibliographical refererence (pages 103-109).