Infections Diseases in the Context of Terrorist Threat

From the great number of pathogenic and conventionally pathogenic for human beings microorganisms, only some of them can be used for terroristic purposes, since they should meet a lot of the relevant properties. Today priority is given to those biological agents, which have undergone successful test...

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Autores principales: Andreychyn, M., Kopcha, V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7121331/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2342-1_18
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description From the great number of pathogenic and conventionally pathogenic for human beings microorganisms, only some of them can be used for terroristic purposes, since they should meet a lot of the relevant properties. Today priority is given to those biological agents, which have undergone successful tests, and are characterized by high index of morbidity, pathogenicity, low lethal doses, high contagiousness with short incubation period, and which result in high social and economic costs.
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spelling pubmed-71213312020-04-06 Infections Diseases in the Context of Terrorist Threat Andreychyn, M. Kopcha, V. Counteraction to Chemical and Biological Terrorism in East European Countries Article From the great number of pathogenic and conventionally pathogenic for human beings microorganisms, only some of them can be used for terroristic purposes, since they should meet a lot of the relevant properties. Today priority is given to those biological agents, which have undergone successful tests, and are characterized by high index of morbidity, pathogenicity, low lethal doses, high contagiousness with short incubation period, and which result in high social and economic costs. 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC7121331/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2342-1_18 Text en © Springer Science + Business Media B.V. 2009 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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