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Description

A patient with cutaneous anthrax who develops severe disease has a higher mortality rate and requires more aggressive therapy.


 

Features indicating severe disease – one or more of the following:

(1) systemic findings

(2) age of the patient < 2 years

(3) lesions on head and neck

(4) malignant edema (extensive edema about the cutaneous lesion)

 

Systemic findings include:

(1) fever

(2) malaise

(3) headache

(4) shock

 


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