Christopher J. Watts

TL;DR: These experiments demonstrate that athymic nude C57BL/6 mice are markedly resistant to experimental cutaneous anthrax, apparently because of a superficial neutrophilic response that clears the inoculated organisms before they can invade the underlying skin.

TL;DR: The authors showed that under neutral initial conditions, under high conflict situations, and minorities are advantaged in low conflict games, these effects are a function of the relationship between (1) relative proportions of the majority and minority groups and (2) costs of conflict.

TL;DR: In this model system B. anthracis initially attacks superficial sites in active or inactive hair follicle and then progresses inward, producing destructive infections of the hair follicles; these infections clear when the massed bacilli are eventually contacted and dispersed by inflammatory cells.

TL;DR: The skin may be involved by disseminated fungal infections that are usually caused by endemic fungi or by opportunistic fungal organisms in immunosuppressed patients.