Mondo Description An infection caused by Bacillus anthracis bacteria. It may affect the lungs, gastrointestinal tract, or skin. Patients with lung infection present with fever, headaches, cough, chest pain and shortness of breath. Patients with gastrointestinal infection present with nausea, vomiting and bloody diarrhea. Patients with skin infection develop blisters and ulcers.

Disease Ontology Description A primary bacterial infectious disease that results_in infection located_in skin, located_in lung lymph nodes or located_in gastrointestinal tract, has_material_basis_in Bacillus anthracis, transmitted_by contact with infected animals or animal products, transmitted_by airborne spores or transmitted_by ingestion of undercooked meat from infected animals and has_symptom skin ulcer, has_symptom nausea, has_symptom poor appetite, has_symptom bloody diarrhea, has_symptom fever or has_symptom shortness of breath.