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...research comes on the heels of a Dec. 2 announcement by Avanir Pharmaceuticals that it is developing an antibiotic that, taken just once before anthrax infection, would both kill anthrax bacteria and prevent anthrax toxin from entering cells...
Avanir’s antibiotic would be more powerful and possibly more effective than the current anthrax vaccines that require booster shots every year to remain potent and that combat only anthrax bacteria. But unlike the Avanir antibiotic, Cantley said he hoped that a drug designed to inhibit anthrax lethal factor would be effectively administrable after contraction of anthrax, thereby lessening the need to inoculate large populations and saving lives in cases of late diagnosis...
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