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ArticleAdvances in preventive medicine2012

The need for continued development of ricin countermeasures.

Ronald B Reisler, Leonard A Smith

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Article in Advances in preventive medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Ronald B ReislerDivision of Clinical Medicine, Clinical Research Management Inc., Team Ke'aki Tech, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, 1425 Porter Street, Fort Detrick, MD 21702-5011, USA.
Leonard A Smith

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ricin toxin, an extremely potent and heat-stable toxin produced from the bean of the ubiquitous Ricinus communis (castor bean plant), has been categorized by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a category B biothreat agent that is moderately easy to disseminate. Ricin has the potential to be used as an agent of biological warfare and bioterrorism. Therefore, there is a critical need for continued development of ricin countermeasures. A safe and effective prophylactic vaccine against ricin that was FDA approved for "at risk" individuals would be an important first step in assuring the availability of medical countermeasures against ricin.

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PMID22536516
PMCPMC3318197

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