11. After the bacteria settled to the ground they would be less virulent, but could still cause severe skin infection and injury. 12. ALRT plans to develop new drugs to treat cancer, skin infections, eye diseases and wounds. 13. But Rawlings said the only known cases of human anthrax in Texas have been skin infections caused by contact with infected animals. 14. Far fewer spores are needed to create skin infections than inhalation infections, he said. 15. He got the idea after learning of a cancer patient with a sometimes fatal skin infection, not uncommon among surgery patients then. 16. In addition, anthrax was ruled out in a suspicious skin infection on a postal worker in Fort Collins, Colo., Koplan said. 17. Investigators also are puzzled by a skin infection in a New Jersey accountant. 18. It covers everything from food-related illnesses to skin infections to motion sickness, and contains charts on tropical diseases and data on immunizations. 19. Jock itch and yeast infections are also caused by fungi, as are some serious lung and skin infections. 20. Most important among them, experts said, are the skin infections and pneumonia caused by a deadly bacteria, enterococcus faecium, that does not succumb to vancomycin. |