The Jurnal of Preventive Medicine

This review presents many of numerous studies realized in the past century by Romanian researchers who contributed directly or indirectly to progress in animal anthrax specific prevention and imunological diagnosis of the disease. It is underlined Nicolae Stamatin’s great contribution; he obtained a new acapsulated and attenuated vaccinal strain of B. anthracis whose mass use led to a dramatical decrease of anthrax morbidity among