Investigating an airborne tularemia outbreak, Germany

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 238-243

  Hauri, Anja M ^a   Hofstetter, Iris ^b   Seibold, Erik ^c   Kaysser, Philip ^c   Eckert, Juergen ^b   Neubauer, Heinrich ^d   Splettstoesser, Wolf D ^c,e  

^a Hesse State Health Office   (Germany)

^b Public Health Authority Darmstadt Dieburg   (Germany)

^c National Reference Laboratory for Tularemia   (Germany)

^d Institute of Bacterial Zoonoses   (Germany)

^e ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AIRBORNE INFECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INHALATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TULAREMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEROSOLS; AGED; ANIMALS; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GERMANY; HARES; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROLOGIC TESTS; TULAREMIA; YOUNG ADULT; ZOONOSES;

EID: 76149130379     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1602.081727     Document Type: Article

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