Bioterrorism and infectious agents:a new dilemma for the 21st century

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Fong I. W.; (Ignatius W.); Alibek Ken.
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: New York, NY
Publication Dates: c2005.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Emerging infectious diseases of the 21st century
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Carrier Form: xvi, 273 p.: ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0387236848
9780387236841
0387236856 (e-book)
9780387236858 (e-book)
Index Number: E931
CLC: E931
D815.5
Call Number: E931/B616
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Anthrax : a disease and a weapon / Kenneth Alibek, Catherine Lobanova and Serguei Popov -- Plague as a biological weapon / David T. Dennis -- Tularemia and bioterrorism / Lisa Hodges and Robert L. Penn -- Melioidosis and Glanders as possible biological weapons / David Allan Brett Dance -- Smallpox as a weapon for bioterrorism / J. Michael Lane -- Hemorrhagic Fever viruses as biological weapons / Allison Groseth ... [et al.] -- Butulism as a potential agent of bioterrorism / Thomas P. Bleck -- Ricin : a possible, noninfectious biological weapon / Maor Maman and Yoav Yehezkelli -- Bioterrorism alert for health care workers / Theodore J. Cieslak, George W. Christopher and Edward M. Eitzen -- The economics of planning and preparing for bioterrorism / Martin I. Meltzer.