Pathogenic ecology: Where have all the pathogens gone? Anthrax: a classic case
2009
Pathogenic ecology is the natural relationship to animate and inanimate components of the environment that support
the sustainment of a pathogen in the environment or prohibit its sustainment, or their interactions with an introduced
pathogen that allow for the establishment of disease in a new environment. The anthrax bacterium in the spore form
has been recognized as a highly likely biological warfare or terrorist agent. The purpose of this work was to determine
the environmental reservoir of Bacillus anthracis between outbreaks of anthrax and to examine the potential factors
influencing the conversion of the Bacillus anthracis from a quiescent state to the disease causing state. Here we
provide environmental and laboratory data for the cycling of Bacillus anthracis in plants to reconcile observations that
contradict the soil borne hypothesis of anthrax maintenance in the environment.
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