An outbreak of cutaneous anthrax in a tribal area of Visakhapatnam district, 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: Journal of Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2277-8632
DOI: 10.4103/jdrntruhs.jdrntruhs_81_17