Risk infections and possibilities for biomedical terrorism /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Risk Infections and Possibilities for Biomedical Terrorism
Other Authors: Elzer, Philip H., Metodiev, Krassimir T.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Washington, DC : IOS Press, [2004]
Series:NATO science series. Life and behavioural sciences. v. 361.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • A review on bioterrorism, definition, history, current state, future threats
  • Organization of military medical response to bioterroristic attacks
  • Zoonotic bacterial agents and their roles in biological and agricultural terrorism
  • Application of genomics and proteomics for detection assay development for biological agents of mass destruction
  • Clinical aspects of anthrax
  • Mass trauma in Jerusalem
  • Screening Bulgarian medicinal plant extracts for antioxidant activity
  • BioSensing technologies
  • Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
  • Immunotoxicity and sensitizing capacity of metal compounds depend on speciation
  • Patient empowerment
  • Cross-infection in dentistry prevention and control
  • Biological weapons - risk assessment of use
  • The experience of the Center Military Psychology and Prevention in the Psychological Support of the Peace-Keeping Forces of NATO and UN
  • An assessment of the potential of amplified-fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) for use in identification and typing of Brucella isolates
  • Can blood products be used for bioterrorism?
  • Antibiotics : modes of action, resistance mechanisms and the search for new compounds
  • An assessment of the levels of harmful substances in the atmospheric air in an ecologically polluted region
  • Chemokines
  • Status of the sea water in the bathing zone of the Varna Sea Coast
  • Anaerobic surgical infection as possible mode of bioterrorism
  • Characteristics of chronic hepatitis C viral infection for the region of Varna
  • Experimental attempt to introduce a vaccine therapy by using DC-developed from CD34₊ cells
  • Validation of rapid diagnostics for foreign and emerging animal diseases in the United States
  • Bioterrorism and biosensors in the microbiological laboratory