Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Fort Sam Houstan, TX : Office of the Surgeon General
ISBN
0160797314 / 9780160797316
Description
"Addresses weaponization of biological agents. Categorizes potential agents as food, waterborne, or agricultural toxins and discusses the respective epidemiology."--Amazon.com viewed Oct. 29, 2020
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CONTENTS:
Historical overview: from poisoned darts to pan-hazard preparedness
; Epidemiology of biowarfare and bioterrorism
; Food, waterborne, and agricultural diseases
; Consequence management: the local and national response
; Medical management of potential biological casualties: a stepwise approach
; Anthrax
; Brucellosis
; Glanders
; Melioidosis
; Plague
; Tularemia
; Q fever
; Multidrug-resistant bacterial infections as a threat to the US military health system: acinetobacter infections as a case study
; Botulinum toxin
; Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin
; Ricin
; Staphylococcal enterotoxin B and related toxins produced by staphylococcus aureus and streptococcus pyogenes
; Toxins from venoms and poisons
; Marine algal toxins of concern as intentional contaminants
; Alphavirus encephalitides
; Hemorrhagic fever-causing mammarenaviruses
; Henipaviruses
; Filoviruses
; Smallpox and related orthopox viruses
; Emerging infectious diseases and future threats
; Laboratory identification of threats
; Medical countermeasures
; Future prospects of vaccines and antibodies in biodefense
; Aerobiology: history, development, and programs
; Biosafety
; Biological surety
; Ethical issues in the development of drugs and vaccines for biodefense
https://www.r2library.com/resource/title/9780160941597
CONTENTS:
Historical overview: from poisoned darts to pan-hazard preparedness
; Epidemiology of biowarfare and bioterrorism
; Food, waterborne, and agricultural diseases
; Consequence management: the local and national response
; Medical management of potential biological casualties: a stepwise approach
; Anthrax
; Brucellosis
; Glanders
; Melioidosis
; Plague
; Tularemia
; Q fever
; Multidrug-resistant bacterial infections as a threat to the US military health system: acinetobacter infections as a case study
; Botulinum toxin
; Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin
; Ricin
; Staphylococcal enterotoxin B and related toxins produced by staphylococcus aureus and streptococcus pyogenes
; Toxins from venoms and poisons
; Marine algal toxins of concern as intentional contaminants
; Alphavirus encephalitides
; Hemorrhagic fever-causing mammarenaviruses
; Henipaviruses
; Filoviruses
; Smallpox and related orthopox viruses
; Emerging infectious diseases and future threats
; Laboratory identification of threats
; Medical countermeasures
; Future prospects of vaccines and antibodies in biodefense
; Aerobiology: history, development, and programs
; Biosafety
; Biological surety
; Ethical issues in the development of drugs and vaccines for biodefense