title: Clinical and epidemiological investigation of a fatal anthrax case in China.
abstract: Anthrax is a recessive infectious disease caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, and is primarily a zoonotic disease. Until recently, Bacillus anthracis infections were relatively infrequent and confined to agrarian communities in underdeveloped countries. No anthrax cases were reported in Changchun City in the past few decades until a male patient from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region presented the anthrax disease manifestation. This paper describes an anthrax patient's diagnosis, isolation and treatment which involved institutions in two different Chinese provinces; the foci epidemiological investigation alongside with the outbreak management process, which is of great significance to control the spread of the recessive infection is also described.
authors.affiliation: First Hospital of Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, China. hychen@jlu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Haiying
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Wanguo
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Kaiyu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000881:Anthrax / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001408:Bacillus anthracis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D002681:China; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged