Biological Weapons Defense: Infectious Disease and Counterbioterrorism Book

	Foreword
	Foreword
1	Department of defense capabilities supporting bioterrorism response	3
2	Modeling for bioterrorism incidents	23
3	Biological weapons defense : effect levels	41
4	Pathogenesis by aerosol	65
5	Bacillus anthracis and the pathogenesis of anthrax	79
6	Virologic and pathogenic aspects of the Variola virus (smallpox) as a bioweapon	99
7	Plague vaccines : retrospective analysis and future developments	121
8	Medical protection against brucellosis	155
9	Pathogenesis of and immunity to Coxiella burnetii	185
10	Glanders : new insights into an old disease	209
11	Medical countermeasures for filoviruses and other viral agents	239
12	Medical defense against protein toxin weapons : review and perspective	255
13	Antimicrobials for biological warfare agents	285
14	Nonspecific immunomodulator therapy : CpG	317
15	Decontamination	333
16	Definition and overview of emerging threats	351
17	Department of Defense global emerging infections system programs in biodefense	361
18	Information resources and database development for defense against biological weapons	387
19	Genomic efforts with biodefense pathogens	417
20	Genomics for biodefense : exploiting the Francisella tularensis genome sequence	435
21	Genetic fingerprinting of biodefense pathogens for epidemiology and forensic investigation	453
22	Yersinia pestis as an emerged pathogen : what lessons can be learned?	481
23	Requirements for biological threat identification systems	509
24	DNA-based diagnostic tests for detection and identification of biological weapons	525
25	Concepts for the development of immunodiagnostic assays for detection and diagnosis of biothreat agents	551