Given the following LD50 values for Bacillus anthracis, through which portal of entry is it easiest to get anthrax?

A) ingestion: 1 million endospores
B) All are equally easy portals of entry.
C) cutaneous: 50 endospores
D) inhalation: 20,000 endospores


Ans: C) cutaneous: 50 endospores

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