anthrax

/an-thraks/US // ˈæn θræks //UK // (ˈænθræks) //

炭疽,炭疽病,炭疽病毒,炭疽病人

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural an·thra·ces [an-thruh-seez]. /ˈæn θrəˌsiz/. Pathology.
- : an infectious, often fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other mammals, caused by Bacillus anthracis, transmitted to humans by contaminated wool, raw meat, or other animal products.
- : a malignant carbuncle that is the diagnostic lesion of anthrax disease in humans.

Examples

It will be focused on chemicals, and not biological agents like anthrax, nor radiological or nuclear concerns.
If anthrax were to blame, other animals would have been affected, but they were not.
The nomads’ cattle would be immunized against brucellosis and anthrax bacterial infections.
A military vaccine for inhalation anthrax—impossible to test because hardly anyone gets that disease—was cleared in that way.
The only other vaccine that has ever received an EUA was an anthrax vaccine, but it’s not a useful comparison because the vaccine was already in use and the 2005 authorization was granted to allow the US.
The son is reportedly part of a new generation of young drug lords who called themselves “the Anthrax Group.”
Where better to test cultures of anthrax, typhoid, plague and tularemia than on an island in a sea in the middle of the desert?
As a result of the small size of the spores, anthrax is virtually impossible to see, smell, or taste.
News that 75 government scientists had been exposed to anthrax in Atlanta sent shivers up the spine of the science world Thursday.
“Anthrax could be released in a city, quietly, without anyone knowing,” the narrator says.
Around it I find only some scanty relics of its meals, consisting chiefly of Anthrax-wings, half-diaphanous and half-clouded.
Plague, anthrax, yellow fever, cannot exist in one country without harm to all.
Pick off any colonies resembling those of anthrax and subcultivate on all the ordinary laboratory media.
It has been suggested that the horse flies carry anthrax, and their bites sometimes cause malignant pustules.
A similar structure exists in the other species of Anthrax with slight variations of detail.

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural an·thra·ces [an-thruh-seez]. /ˈæn θrəˌsiz/. Pathology.
- : an infectious, often fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other mammals, caused by Bacillus anthracis, transmitted to humans by contaminated wool, raw meat, or other animal products.
- : a malignant carbuncle that is the diagnostic lesion of anthrax disease in humans.

Examples

It will be focused on chemicals, and not biological agents like anthrax, nor radiological or nuclear concerns.

If anthrax were to blame, other animals would have been affected, but they were not.

The nomads’ cattle would be immunized against brucellosis and anthrax bacterial infections.

A military vaccine for inhalation anthrax—impossible to test because hardly anyone gets that disease—was cleared in that way.

The only other vaccine that has ever received an EUA was an anthrax vaccine, but it’s not a useful comparison because the vaccine was already in use and the 2005 authorization was granted to allow the US.

The son is reportedly part of a new generation of young drug lords who called themselves “the Anthrax Group.”

Where better to test cultures of anthrax, typhoid, plague and tularemia than on an island in a sea in the middle of the desert?

As a result of the small size of the spores, anthrax is virtually impossible to see, smell, or taste.

News that 75 government scientists had been exposed to anthrax in Atlanta sent shivers up the spine of the science world Thursday.

“Anthrax could be released in a city, quietly, without anyone knowing,” the narrator says.

Around it I find only some scanty relics of its meals, consisting chiefly of Anthrax-wings, half-diaphanous and half-clouded.

Plague, anthrax, yellow fever, cannot exist in one country without harm to all.

Pick off any colonies resembling those of anthrax and subcultivate on all the ordinary laboratory media.

It has been suggested that the horse flies carry anthrax, and their bites sometimes cause malignant pustules.

A similar structure exists in the other species of Anthrax with slight variations of detail.