Cutaneous, or an anthrax skin infection, is the most common and least severe form of the disease. A person may develop this milder form when the contaminant enters the skin through a cut or abrasion.

The two men identified themselves as pilots when they came to the emergency room of Holy Cross Hospital in Ft. Lauderdale in June. One had an ugly, dark lesion on his leg that he said he developed … ...

In humans, anthrax can cause skin ulcers with a black center and swelling, ... “Suspected cases unwilling to show their skin lesions and allowing samples being taken,” the report said.

In rare cases, person-to-person transmission has been reported with cutaneous anthrax, where discharges from skin lesions might be infectious, according to the Centers for Disease Control and ...

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The first skin lesion is a painless or pruritic papule with a disproportionate quantity of edema that evolves into a vesicular form (1–2 cm). Fever and regional lymphadenopathy are possible side ...

A one-year-old boy was infected with cutaneous anthrax, causing a massive, oozing, lesion to erupt on his buttocks. It took ten days of antibiotic treatment for his condition to begin improvement.

On September 24, the lesion had the typical appearance of an anthrax pustule. The vesicles and center of the papule had turned bluish-black in color, but the surrounding edema was not so great.

The Mayo Clinic reports no evidence that anthrax is transmitted from person to person, but anthrax skin lesions may be contagious through direct contact or contact with a contaminated object (fomite).

Two wound swabs from the rancher, a male in his 50s, were positive for Bacillus anthracis DNA, representing an "unusual case of confirmed cutaneous anthrax acquired during the winter in a ...