Besides anthrax research, he focused on several other projects, including wound infections and micrococci in septicemic animals. |
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However, the pneumonic and septicemic forms of the plague can be transmitted through infected droplets in the air. |
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The sort of wound that would leave any of us severely septicemic doesn't seem to touch them. |
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Although uncommon, septicemic plague is nearly always fatal unless antibiotic treatment is begun quickly. |
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The disease in humans has three clinical forms: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. |
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In septicemic plague the bloodstream is so invaded by Yersinia that, in untreated cases, death can ensue even before the bubonic or pneumonic forms have had time to appear. |
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In the days after they were bitten, Mr. Tull, a burly, athletic lawyer — a former prosecutor who volunteered with search-and-rescue teams — developed septicemic plague, as the infection spread throughout his body. |
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In very rare circumstances, as in the septicemic plague, the disease can be transmitted by direct contact with infected tissue or exposure to the cough of another human. |
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Bubonic plague can progress to lethal septicemic plague in some cases. |
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Septicemic plague can occur with either bubonic or pneumonic plague. |
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