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Information on which to base assessments of risk from environments contaminated with anthrax spores

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

A. Watson  and
D. Keir
A. Watson
Affiliation:
Environmental Risk Assessment Department, AEA Technology Consultancy Services, Thomson House, Risley, Warrington, Cheshire WA3 6AT
D. Keir*
Affiliation:
Environmental Risk Assessment Department, AEA Technology Consultancy Services, Thomson House, Risley, Warrington, Cheshire WA3 6AT
*
*Author for correspondence and requests for reprints.
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Although there has been a considerable amount of research conducted into Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, the data are widely disseminated in the scientific literature and are therefore not always easy to assimilate. In view of continuing concern about potential anthrax contamination in environmental materials and sites, this review brings together the currently available information relating to the health hazards from B. anthracis. The relevance of the available information for risk assessment purposes is assessed.

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Research Article
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Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 113 , Issue 3 , December 1994 , pp. 479 - 490
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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