Tag: Anthracis
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Bacillus
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GENERAL: The genus Bacillus includes rod-shaped bacteria, usually mobile, spore-forming. These bacilli are Gram-positive, facultatively aerobic or anaerobic strict. Bacillus genus includes about twenty species, but is primarily concerned with B. anthracis, due to its pathogenicity (animals, man) and B. cereus (food poisoning). However, in recent years, many publications make other Bacillus species responsible for…
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Cutaneous Anthrax
– Toxic infection of herbivores due to Bacillus anthracis transmitted to humans by inoculation through the skin (contact with dead animals of coal, flies). Common in tropical regions. – There is also a pulmonary form, transmitted by inhalation and gastrointestinal form transmitted by ingestion of contaminated meat. Clinical signs: – Pruritic papule and vesicle moving…
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