Key Anthrax Discovery
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Scan day: 04 February 2014 UTC
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Description: Tells how a recent discovery could lead to new treatment without antibiotics.
The wave of bioterrorism continues. Although anthrax is so rare that most doctors have not seen it, about 10 cases have been found in Washington, DC and New York. As the bacterial disease continues to claim victims, researchers today identified the door that anthrax toxin uses to enter and kill mammalian cells. Eventually, the discovery could lead to a treatment for inhaled anthrax. Today, by the time of diagnosis, the patient usually has a deadly dose of anthrax toxin, so antibiotics do not help at that point (skin anthrax, however, is much easier to treat).
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| Page title: | Key anthrax discovery |
| Keywords: | Anthrax receptor, macrophage, bioterror, biological terrorism, bacterial toxin, bacteriology |
| Description: | Anthrax receptor found, could lead to new treatment without antibiotics |
| IP-address: | 144.92.9.200 |