Tularemia in Germany: The tip of the iceberg?

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 736-743

  Splettstoesser, W D ^a   Piechotowski, I ^b   Buckendahl, A ^a   Frangoulidis, D ^a   Kaysser, P ^a   Kratzer, W ^c   Kimmig, P ^b   Seibold, E ^a   Brockmann, S O ^b  

^a BUNDESWEHR INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emerging zoonoses; Francisella tularensis; Seroprevalence in Europe

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CHILD; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOREST RANGER; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUNTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PET ANIMAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROPREVALENCE; TICK BITE; TULAREMIA; URBAN POPULATION; WILDLIFE; WORKER; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED;

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TULAREMIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549164285     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268808001192     Document Type: Article

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