DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF EXOTIC DISHES

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Subject: DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF EXOTIC DISHES                        

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Parent Organization: HSC         

Box  ID: BX003203

Folder Title: DIAGNOSOS AND TREATMENT OF EXOTIC DISEASES                                                      

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                           Collection and Transport of Diagnostic Specimens
                                         for Definitive Diagnosis


            A. Safety Considerations for Medical Personnel.
                  Clinical specimens from victims of biowarfare agents under cons             on
            here do not represent a significant risk to medical personnel. Routine
            protective measures as would be used for hepatitis should provide adeq
            protection for both staff m direct patient contact and laboratory persom
            processing specimens. Cutaneous anthrax could follow contamination
            broken skin, and thus poses some hazard at autopsy. Blood and tissue,;             In
            large numbers of vegetative anthrax organisms which, upon exposure ti
            will sporulate; the spores are resistant to ready disinfection, and will p(
            residual hazard." @                     @@ @@ @ i@

            B. Specimens to be Obtained.
                   1. For Routine Clinical Laboratory
                         a: An@x. Blood culture with routine media will readily
            Bacillus anthracis. Impression smears when taken late in disease from
            mediastinal lymph nodes and spleen, smears from blood, pleural fluid, i
            abnormal cerebrospinal fluid should all be positive by Gram or Giemsa
            Positive smears and cultures should be retained for transport to the U.S.
            Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMR]ID).
                         b: Botulinum Toxin. None appropriate.
                         c: Staphylococcal Enterotoxins. None appropriate.
                         d: Clostridium perfringens. Bacteria can be cultured from              1


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Box ID = BX003203
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Folder Title = DIAGNOSOS AND TREATMENT OF EXOTIC DISEASES
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Subject = DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF EXOTIC DISHES
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Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 06-DEC-1996