Animal carcass and eyelid anthrax: a case report.
Anthrax is a worldwide zoonosis of herbivores, which is caused by the spore-forming bacteria Bacillus anthracis, and humans become infected when they are exposed to infected animals and their tissues or the organism directly. In this report, we present a 13-year-old boy who developed eyelid anthrax after contact with a sheep carcass during his summer holiday that resulted in eyelid anthrax and cicatricial ectropion.
Devrim
Ilker
I
Department of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Kara
Ateş
A
Tezer
Hasan
H
Cengiz
A Bülent
AB
Ceyhan
Mehmet
M
Seçmeer
Gülten
G
D000293:Adolescent; D000822:Animal Husbandry; D000818:Animals; D000881:Anthrax / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000635:transmission* / Q000662:veterinary; D005141:Eyelid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012756:Sheep; D012757:Sheep Diseases; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000635:transmission