Landscape Epidemiology of Tularemia Outbreaks in Sweden

Landscape Epidemiology of Tularemia Outbreaks in Sweden

Summer outbreaks of tularemia that occurred from 1995 through 2005 in 2 locations in Sweden affected 441 persons. We performed an epidemiologic investigation of these outbreaks using a novel strategy, involving high-resolution genotyping of Francisella tularensis isolates obtained from 136 patients...

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Main Authors: Kerstin Svensson, Erik Bäck, Henrik Eliasson, Lennart Berglund, Malin Granberg, Linda Karlsson, Pär Larsson, Mats Forsman, Anders Johansson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2009-12-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Francisella tularensis
tularemia
epidemiology
outbreak
bacterial typing
VNTR
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/12/09-0487_article

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