Indigenous Infection with Francisella tularensis holarctica in The Netherlands

We report here the first case of indigenous tularemia detected in The Netherlands, a nonendemic country, since 1953. Whole genome DNA sequence analysis assigned the isolate BD11-00177 to the genomic group B.FTNF002-00, which previously has been exclusively reported from Spain, France, Italy, Switzer...

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Main Authors: Boulos Maraha, Gerhard Hajer, Andreas Sjödin, Mats Forsman, Armand Paauw, Guus Roeselers, Ellen Verspui, Ine Frenay, Daan Notermans, Maaike de Vries, Frans Reubsaet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2013-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Infectious Diseases
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/916985