All participants used multiple sources of information and support as they weighed the risk from anthrax against the advantages and disadvantages of antibiotics. We found that nonadherent ...

Following the 2001 anthrax attacks, surveys showed that fewer than half of the individuals potentially exposed to B. anthracis spores correctly followed the antibiotic treatment protocol ...

The anthrax which is currently being sent through the mail is susceptible to numerous types of antibiotics (including the very first antibiotic, penicillin), not just high-tech Ciprofloxacin. The ...

Danzig warned government defense officials in invitation-only seminars that terrorists could engineer the anthrax bacterium to be drug-resistant. He eventually urged officials to buy stockpiles of ...

Initial testing of the antibiotic compound has demonstrated it efficacy in attacking anthrax, a bacterium that has been used as a bioterrorism weapon. But it also showed significant activity ...

Subsequent to the introduction of penicillins as life-saving drugs 60 years ago during World War II, we take for granted that there will be one or more antibiotic, alone or as a combination, that ...

Otherwise known as ciprofloxacin, Cipro is part of a class of broad-spectrum antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones. Its recommended uses include to treat anthrax, the plague, gonorrhea ...