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    Pharmacognosy Communications
    The Janus Corner

    Pharmacogenetic Investigations of Various Medicinal Plants against the Zoonotic Bacterium Bacillus anthracis

    April 1, 2019Updated:August 9, 20211 Min Read

    Lindiwe Mpala1, Getmore Chikowe1, Ian Edwin Cock1,2
    1School of Environment and Science, Nathan Campus, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Rd, Nathan, Brisbane, Queensland, AUSTRALIA.
    2Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, 170 Kessels Rd, Nathan, Brisbane, Queensland, AUSTRALIA.

    Pharmacognosy Communications,2019,9,2,80-81.
    DOI:10.5530/pc.2019.2.15
    Published: April 2019
    Type: The Janus Corner

    ABSTRACT

    Made famous in the early 2000s for its use in biological warfare, anthrax is a deadly disease caused by the sporulating bacterium Bacillus anthracis. In addition to the danger it poses to humans, anthrax also infects livestock with an extremely high mortality rate. Bacterial spores can then put farmers at risk, who encounter diseased carcasses, at risk of infection. Research by Dr. Mitchell Wright (A postdoctoral researcher at Griffith University) and Dr. Ian Cock (Senior lecturer and principal investigator of the project) into natural therapies for anthrax has generated significant results. Read more…

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