[Current views on pathogenicity and immunogenicity factors of Bacillus anthracis].

Bacillus anthracis is an etiological agent of extremely dangerous zooanthroponosis - anthrax. To date, significant volume of scientific data about structure, molecular nature, characteristics, genetic determination, regulation and action mechanisms of main pathogenicity factors of B. anthracis and its immunogenicity is accumulated. For study of integral picture ofpathogenesis and immunogenesis such global methodologies as complex analysis of structure and functions ofgenome, on the one hand, and studies of fine mechanisms of interactions of genes or certain parts of protein molecules, on the other, were used.