New research suggests that anthrax-causing bacteria conspire with viruses to extend each other's lifespan. The work reveals a previously unknown relationship between Bacillus anthracis and viruses ...

Those bacteria include Staphylococcus aureus, which commonly causes infections in hospitals and can be extremely drug-resistant. Anthrax occurs naturally around the world and can infect all warm ...

Anthrax is a serious infectious disease caused by Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria known as Bacillus anthracis.

The year’s first case of anthrax in North Dakota’s cattle herd has been identified in Stark County. Anthrax is caused by the ...

The high-affinity antibody, an anthrax antitoxin, successfully eliminated both anthrax bacteria and its deadly toxins in animal tests. If future tests concur, this could be the first successful ...

Anthrax bacteria conspire with viruses to stay alive (PhysOrg.com) -- The brute force of Bacillus anthracis, the ancient scourge that causes anthrax, can sweep through and overpower a two-ton ...

ANTHRAX ATTACK. A viral enzyme chews holes in the cell wall of Bacillus anthracis, allowing the anthrax bacterium’s contents to bubble out (arrows), which ultimately kills the germ. Rockefeller ...

Researchers have decoded the genome of the bacterium that causes anthrax. The sequence may aid diagnosis, and highlight new targets for vaccine and drug development. The sequence "is like a big ...

The bacteria used for the anthrax attacks in the US is either the strain the US itself used to make anthrax weapons in the 1960s, or close to it. It is not a strain that Iraq, or the former Soviet ...

The anthrax bacteria that killed a New York hospital worker match the spores used in the biological attacks on Capitol Hill and two Manhattan news outlets, according to preliminary lab tests ...