Anthrax Resource Guide
- Anthrax - Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health Preparedness
CDC: Anthrax
Extensive information from the federal government's major online resource on anthrax from the Centers for Disease Control. - Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy: Anthrax
Images, guidelines, a quick vaccination guide, and clinical pathway flowchart from the University of Minnesota research program. - IDSA: Anthrax Resource List
Clinical information from the Infectious Diseases Society of America. - Institute for Bio-Security
Saint Louis University School of Public Health anthrax resources. - MedlinePlus: Anthrax
Information resources for the general public plus links to literature searches in Medline. Some Spanish language links. - World Anthrax Data Site
Map-based data from the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Public Health.
- ACIP
Anthrax Vaccine Recommendations
Use of Anthrax vaccine in the United States from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control. - AVIP Anthrax Vaccine Immunization
Program
Department of Defense information on vaccine use and safety. - The anthrax vaccine
: is it safe? does it work? Lois
M. Joellenbeck et al., editors
Committee to Assess the Safety and Efficacy of the Anthrax Vaccine, Medical Follow-up Agency, Institute of Medicine, 2002. - Use
of Anthrax Vaccine in Response to Terrorism: Supplemental Recommendations
of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
JAMA Vol.288 No. 21 December 4, 2002.
- Virginia Department of Health: Anthrax
Fact Sheet. - Virginia Dept. of Emergency Management, Virginia Terrorism Preparedness
Anthrax questions and answer
Books, Journals and Audiovisual Materials
To search for books, journals, and audiovisual materials held by the VCU Libraries, use the VCU Library Catalog , which allows you to search by title, author, keyword and subject. To determine the appropriate subject heading for a topic, consult the lists of Medical Subject Headings or Library of Congress Subject Headings in the libraries. Possible medical subject headings for books and a.v. include anthrax and bacillus anthracis.
- National
Academies Press
Anthrax titles.
Full-text Book Chapters and Selected Journal Articles
- Anthrax
as a Biological Weapon, 2002 Updated Recommendations for Management
JAMA 2002 May;287(17): 2236-2252. - Anthrax
Bioterrorism: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
Emerging Infectious Diseases 2002 Oct;8(10):1013-1014. - Anthrax
- Chapter 22
In: Zatjchuk R, ed. Textbook of Military Medicine. Washington, DC: Office of the Surgeon General, Walter Reed Medical Center;1997:467-478. (PDF) - The
Primary Care Differential Diagnosis of Inhalational Anthrax VCU
Annals of Family Medicine 2004 September; 2:438-444 - Focus on Anthrax
Two research papers on anthrax toxin, as well as a collection of research, news and feature articles from the Nature electronic archive. - NIH
News - Anthrax Genome Decoded
Announcement of the May 1 issue of Nature reporting on the complete sequence of the 5.2 million base pairs of the DNA in B. anthracis' single chromosome.
For recent journal literature from the Medline database, using the MEDLINEplus preformatted search. - Posttraumatic
Stress Among Survivors of Bioterrorism
Raz Gross and Yuval Neria, JAMA 2004 August 292 (5) ;292:566 - What
Is the Most Cost-Effective Way To Protect People in the Event
of an Anthrax Terror Attack?
Robert A. Fowler, Gillian D. Sanders, Dena M. Bravata et al.,Annals 2005 142: 601-610.
- History of Anthrax
- Timeline: Anthrax through the Ages CNN provides a list of dates and notations from 1500 BC to the present.
- PDA Resources
- ACP-AIM Resources - Decision support tools and documents from the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.