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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Federal Register 2 Nov 2001; 66 (213): 55679-82 Rapid initiation of appropriate anthrax treatment or post-exposure antibiotic prophylaxis is essential for optimal patient outcome. Although the ...

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 ...

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 ...

many of them are receiving prophylactic antibiotic treatment “out of an abundance of caution.” CNN reported on Thursday afternoon that 54 CDC employees determined to have been in the labs or hallways ...

Nobody seems to know whether that strain of anthrax was antibiotic resistant or not. It was a regular strain used to manufacture biological weapons. When you look at Sverdlovsk, when you look at ...