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Bioterrorism Information & Resources
The bioterrorism section of the website is a collaboration between IDSA
and the Center for Infectious
Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota with funding
from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) and Pharmacia.
Bioterrorism
Information and Resources: About this Site
Bioterrorism content for infectious disease specialists with
a concise medical summary of key clinical issues including
microbiology, symptoms, clinical course, treatment,
laboratory diagnostic tools, clinical pathways and an
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Slide
Sets, Images and Teaching Tools for ID Specialists
- Clinical
Aspects of Critical Biological Agents
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 62 slides (5
KB); POWERPoint.
Covers signs and symptoms of major biological warfare
agents, including treatment and prevention. Does not
cover diagnostic microbiology. To download the
presentation, scroll to the box at the bottom of the
page, right click on "Download
Presentation" and choose "save as."
- Bioterrorism:
Are We Prepared?
UCLA Center for Public Health Disasters; 62 slides (788
KB), POWERPoint.
Covers presentations of major biological warfare agents
using patient scenarios with accompanying script
that makes it useful for independent learning. Choose
"Slide Presentation" from the menu on the left
and register to download the file.
- Images
of individual agents
CDC Public Health Image Library.
Query by individual agent name (eg smallpox, anthrax,
etc). Some pictures black and white, some
color.
- If
you hear hoofbeats . . . consider these zebras
(PDF, 1 pg)
Helpful teaching tool from the Minnesota Department of
Health
- Smallpox:
What Every Clinician Should Know
Online course from CDC with information on clinical
features, diagnosis and treatment of smallpox, and the
characteristics and use of smallpox vaccine.
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