What's the difference between anthrax and murrain?
Anthrax
Definition:
(n.) A carbuncle.
(n.) A malignant pustule.
(n.) A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under Bacillus.]
(n.) An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.
Example Sentences:
(1) The production of protective antigen (PA), the common component of the two anthrax toxins, is influenced by the environment.
(2) Rabbits and sheep immunized with protective anthrax preparation and live anthrax vaccines were examined.
(3) For the detection of anthrax bacillus, sterile swabs should be soaked in the fluid of the vesicles.
(4) Other important bacterial infections of potential concern are tuberculosis, Johne's disease, anthrax, malignant edema, actinomycosis, tetanus, and the South American condition referred to as alpaca fever, which, to date, has not been observed in North America.
(5) The authors present the results of study of the blood neutrophil injury in guinea pigs, rabbits, monkeys, and also humans inoculated subcutaneously with live anthrax vaccine.
(6) Two patients contracted cutaneous anthrax after contact with infected bone meal.
(7) In an anthrax scare, talcum powder is removed from the chemist's shelves.
(8) Previous studies have shown that symmetric tetraalkylammonium ions affect, in a voltage-dependent manner, the conductance of membranes containing many channels formed by the PA65 fragment of anthrax toxin.
(9) The twenty cases of internal anthrax comprised intestinal, septicemic, peritonitis, meningeal and pulmonary forms.
(10) A procedure has been developed for purification of the tripartite anthrax-toxin components.
(11) Thus, the enhancement of chemotaxis by anthrax toxin (at least by LF + PA) does not seem to be related to adenylate cyclase activity.
(12) The use of dry seeding material for making dry anthrax vaccine rendered the preparations obtained more standard, reduced the time required for their production, led to increase of AKM-SH productivity, and to greater profitability of the vaccine production.
(13) Evidence that furin may require a P4 Arg in fluorogenic peptide substrates suggested that this enzyme might cleave the protective antigen (PA) component of anthrax toxin at the sequence -Arg-Lys-Lys-Arg-.
(14) Anthrax lethal toxin consists of two separate proteins, protective antigen and lethal factor (LF).
(15) The radiological changes in two cases of inhalation anthrax are correlated with pathological findings.
(16) The first bacteriologically confirmed case of oropharyngeal anthrax is described.
(17) The potential for flies to mechanically transmit anthrax suggests that fly control should be considered as part of a program for control of epizootic anthrax.
(18) Three fractions of the anthrax protective antigen obtained possessed weaker immunobiological properties than the whole preparation of this antigen.
(19) The genetic analysis indicates that resistance to anthrax is probably controlled by a dominant gene, not linked with histocompatibility complex H-2 and, probably, unrelated to the presence of hemolytic activity in mouse sera, determined by component C5 of the complement.
(20) Chemotherapeutic efficacy of combined therapy of experimental anthrax infection with subtherapeutic doses of doxycycline and a low molecular weight immunomodulator of microbial origin was studied with mathematical design of the experiment and multifactorial analysis.
Murrain
Definition:
(n.) An infectious and fatal disease among cattle.
(a.) Having, or afflicted with, murrain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Different serological methods were used in determining the valence of red murrain immune sera.