1. As a weapon, anthrax would be most lethal if released in aerosol form in a confined space, Guillemin said. 2. Tests with animals, he said, suggest that the aerosol form of the drug would be effective at a fraction of the injected dose and be less toxic. 3. That requires getting the bacteria into a fine aerosol form that people could inhale deeply, and delivering the mist to their mouths and noses. 4. The new drug, called TOBI, is an aerosol form of tobramycin, an antibiotic. 5. During the Cold War, U.S. and Soviet laboratories assigned thousands of researchers to put plague and other biological agents in aerosol form. |
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