bacillus anthracis

anthrax

1.cutaneous anthrax:

-handling infected material

-spores from the soil or an infected or dead animal enter through a cut abrasion

- the spores germinate and vegetative cells multiply locally forming a small papule which change rapidly to a vesicle than a pustule and finally to a necrotic ulcer whch blakens to form charactersitic eschar

- the lesion is painless and surrounded by marked oedema

- untreated case may develop fatal fulminating septicaemia

2.intestinal anthrax

- from eating infected meat

3. pulmonary anthrax

- from inhaling spore-laden dust

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