Biotechnology and the Public Health Response to Bioterrorism -- Historical Perspectives of Microbial Bioterrorism -- The Infectious Disease Physician and Microbial Bioterrorism -- Modulation of Innate Immunity to Protect Against Biological Weapon Threat -- Smallpox: Pathogenesis and Host Immune Responses Relevant to Vaccine and Therapeutic Strategies -- Bacillus anthracis: Agent of Bioterror and Disease -- Tularemia Pathogenesis and Immunity -- Brucella and Bioterrorism -- Pneumonic Plague -- Coxiella burnetii, Q Fever, and Bioterrorism -- Genomic and Proteomic Approaches Against Q Fever -- Rickettsia rickettsii and Other Members of the Spotted Fever Group as Potential Bioweapons.