Ántrax cutáneo
El carbunco es causado por la bacteria Bacillus anthracis. Aunque esta enfermedad afecta comúnmente a los animales ungulados, como ovejas y cabras, también la pueden adquirir los humanos. El tipo más común de la enfermedad es el carbunco cutáneo, una infección de la piel.
Revision
Last reviewed 6/9/2011 by David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
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