Bacillus anthracis lethal toxin (LT) is a determinant of lethal anthrax. Its function in myeloid cells is required for bacterial dissemination, and LT itself can directly trigger dysfunction of the ...

Anthrax, an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is often treatable in its early stages. But once the disease has progressed beyond the "point of no return" after just a few ...

April 17 -- Anthrax is something Americans have come to know and fear. Last fall, it killed five people and made 13 others sick. The anthrax bacteria are so infectious that health officials wear ...

Anthrax is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. While the infection is often treatable in its early stages, once the disease has progressed beyond the “point of no return” ...

Shihui Liu, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and member of the Aging Institute, a joint venture of Pitt and UPMC Anthrax, an infectious ...

Oct. 16 -- An old and discarded treatment for anthrax infection could be manufactured in a matter of weeks and help save many lives. The vaccine-like antidote is "anthrax antitoxin." It's cheap to ...

Anthrax has been used around the world as a biological weapon for nearly a century. But what if this deadly toxin could be used to fight cancer and save lives? Researchers at MIT are taking one of ...

The study grew out of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) review of reported cases of unusually severe illnesses caused by these or other Bacillus species. The researchers did not study ...

Anthrax toxin, which due to unfortunate circumstances has become a topic of great public interest at the moment, has three parts: lethal factor (LF), oedema factor (OF) and the protective agent (PA).

The recent advances in basic and applied research of medical countermeasures against inhalation anthrax have been remarkable. Since 2001, the US government has made more than US$40 billion available ...

David P. Wright says his company is in the business of staying one step ahead of bioterrorists. "Once we find an answer for one pathogen, the terrorist will find something else," said Wright, chief ...