| The child’s mother, an ABC
employee, took the child with her to the ABC building at 47 W. 66th Street in
Manhattan on September 28 for a co-worker's birthday party. The child
like came in contact with an envelop sent to ABC that contained anthrax.
No such envelop, however, was recovered. The next day the child had what the
mother thought was an insect bite on his arm. The wound quickly worsened,
became ulcerated, and the mother took the child to the hospital. The diagnosis of cutaneous anthrax was first considered on
October 12 after the announcement of the other confirmed anthrax case in New
York City. A serum specimen collected on October 2 was positive for B.
anthracis by PCR testing at CDC; a skin biopsy obtained on October 13
was positive by immunohistochemical staining at CDC for the cell wall
antigen of B. anthracis. Treated with ciprofloxacin.
Click for clinical details (New England J Medicine) (11/29/01)
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