Cutaneous, or an anthrax skin infection, is the most common and least severe form of the disease.

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Antibiotics can be effective anthrax-killers in an infected person, especially if someone contracts cutaneous anthrax and gets prompt treatment.

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These mutations result in signs and symptoms related to vision (ocular) and those related to skin (cutaneous), hair and iris color.

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Anthrax infection can occur in three forms: cutaneous (skin), inhalation, and gastrointestinal.

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Dr. Friedman said they can compress a major nerve, the lateral, femoral cutaneous nerve, that runs from the abdomen to the outer thigh.

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It means that the doctor did three years of dedicated skin disease training at an accredited dermatology residency studying cutaneous medicine, surgery and pathology.

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On September 25, the woman had contact with a letter or package with a white powdery substance and began experiencing symptoms of cutaneous anthrax three days later.

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The employee at NBC who contracted anthrax has cutaneous anthrax.

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But in meralgia paresthetica, the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve becomes trapped often under the inguinal ligament, which runs along your groin from your abdomen to your upper thigh.

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The woman in New York, an NBC employee who works in Rockefeller Center, is believed to have contacted the less severe, and seldom fatal form of anthrax known as cutaneous anthrax.

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Anthrax infections take three forms: cutaneous, inhalation and intestinal.

CNN: Cutaneous anthrax most common, most survived

Dr Michael Detmar, from the Massachussetts General Hospital Cutaneous Biology Research Center, said that measuring the number of these vessels in human tumours could help doctors predict the likelihood of spread outside the breast.

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Additionally, a sensory pad was applied onto our forearm's medial cutaneous nerve (around the elbow area) to pick up our muscular nerve signal -- similarly, Cyberdyne's lower-body exosuit requires two sensors on each leg.

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Seven other people contracted cutaneous (skin) anthrax.

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