Bacillus anthracis is a type of aerobic spore-forming bacteria that causes anthrax disease.
InformationLivestock may become infected by eating or inhaling anthrax spores. Humans, especially farmers and individuals who work in slaughterhouses, may develop cutaneous anthrax through skin exposure to infected animals.
Humans can also get inhalational anthrax by breathing in material contaminated with the bacteria. Inhalational anthrax can be deadly.
Anthrax infection is usually diagnosed by identifying the bacteria within skin blisters, blood, or other body fluids. The anthrax serologytest can determine if a person has been previously exposed to Bacillus anthracis.
The anthrax bacterium is a potential biological weapon. In 2001, bioterrorist activities involving the U.S. Postal Service infected 22 people with anthrax; 7 survivors had confirmed cutaneous anthrax disease. However, most bio-terrorism experts have concluded that it is technologically difficult to use anthrax effectively as a weapon on a large scale.
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Bacillus anthracis IS the scientific name.
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The scientific name of anthrax is Bacillus anthracis.
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The Bacillus anthracis bacterium is significantly bigger than Chlamydia trachomatis.
A pulmonary form of anthrax that results from the inhalation of spores of the bacterium Bacillus Anthracis in the wool of contaminated sheep. The bacterium that causes this is Bacillus Anthracis
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Anthrax is not a virus, but a bacterium known as Bacillus anthracis. Bacillus species are gram positive bacilli.
Bacillus are the type of bacteria which are causative agents of food poisoning. e.g. Bacillus Anthracis
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