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Case Reports
. 1978 Sep;9(5):594-7.
doi: 10.1016/s0046-8177(78)80140-3.

Inhalation anthrax in a home craftsman

Case Reports

Inhalation anthrax in a home craftsman

S C Suffin et al. Hum Pathol. 1978 Sep.

Abstract

Inhalation anthrax with complicating subarachnoid hemorrhage due to simultaneous infection with two capsular biotypes of Bacillus anthracis of different virulence for the mouse is reported. The patient, a home craftsman, acquired his infection from imported animal-origin yarn.

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