An outbreak of cutaneous anthrax in a non-endemic district - Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh
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An outbreak of cutaneous anthrax in a non-endemic district--Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
BACKGROUND Anthrax is a disease of herbivorous animals, and humans incidentally acquire the disease by handling infected dead animals and their products. Sporadic cases of human anthrax have been reported from Southern India. METHODS Five tribal men presented with painless ulcers with vesiculation and edema of the surrounding skin on the extremities without any constitutional symptoms. There ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0378-6323
DOI: 10.4103/0378-6323.13994