Sci. a curable localized cutaneous illness, inhalation of anthrax spores gives rise to a rapidly progressing, highly fatal systemic disease. Fatality associated with inhalational anthrax has been attributed to two plasmid-encoded secreted protein toxins, edema toxin (EdTx) and lethal toxin (LeTx), which destroy experimental animals upon injection (Moayeri and Leppla, 2009). Anthrax toxin inhibitors have […]