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The study of Bacillus Anthracis remains at the forefront of microbiology research because of its potential use as a bioterror agent and its role in shaping our understanding of bacterial pathogenesis and innate immunity. Bacillus Anthracis and Anthrax provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of the organism, ranging from basic biology to public health issues associated with anthrax. This book will be a premier reference for B. Anthracis and anthrax to microbiologists, medical and public health professionals, bioterror research and preparedness, immunologists, and physiologists.
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| Title of eBook: Bacillus anthracis and Anthrax | |
| Release Date: 06-09-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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Bacillus anthracis and Anthrax
Chapter One
Anthrax from 5000 BC to AD 2010Peter C. B. Turnbull and Sean V. Shadomy
FROM ANCIENT TIMES TO THE 19TH CENTURY
Historical Names of Anthrax
Anthrax (Latin, a carbuncle) is derived from the Greek [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (anthrax) meaning coal and referring to the characteristic black eschar in human cutaneous anthrax. Other older names for the disease, such as "malignant pustule" or "black bane," and names in other languages, such as charbon (French) and carbonchio (Italian), similarly reflect these features. Yet other names reflect other manifestations of the disease in humans and/or animals or its sources of infection, such as woolsorter's/ragpicker's/Bradford disease and the German equivalent Hadernkrankheit (rag disease), splenic fever, Milzbrand (German, meaning "spleen fire"), Siberian plague, Lodiana fever, and Pali plague in India, and many more. The many names in many languages reflect the historical and widespread recognition of the numerous features of anthrax before it was understood that they were all manifestations of a single etiological agent.
The earliest application of the name "anthrax" to the afflictions caused by Bacillus anthracis is uncertain. "Bloody murrain" was probably the most common term for the disease in animals in early English language texts, and carbuncle—or malignant carbuncle to distinguish it from other carbuncular manifestations—was the term used for the cutaneous infection in humans. From a book of 1766, Viljoen (1928) cites "Visit to your servant girl suffering from a considerable anthrax and found several furuncles on the back; cured same" but believes
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