Re-emergence of Francisella tularensis in Germany: Fatal tularaemia in a colony of semi-free-living marmosets (Callithrix jacchus)

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1256-1265

  Splettstoesser, W D ^a   Matz Rensing K ^b   Seibold, E ^a   Tomaso, H ^a   Al dahouk, S ^a   Grunow, R ^c   Essbauer, S ^a   Buckendahl, A ^a   Finke, E J ^a   Neubauer, H ^d  

^a BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROMYCIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIRD; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION MIGRATION; TULAREMIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CALLITHRIX; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; LIVER; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPLEEN; TULAREMIA;

EID: 37249023146     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807008035     Document Type: Article

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