Tularaemia outbreaks in Sakarya, Turkey: Case-control and environmental studies

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 655-659

  Meric, M ^a   Sayan, M ^b   Dundar, D ^c   Willke, A ^a  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b PCR Unit

^c Department of Microbiology ^*

Author keywords

Francisella tularensis; Outbreaks; Polymerase chain reaction; Risk factors; Tularaemia

Indexed keywords

TAP WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIC; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID INTAKE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; PHARYNGITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN DEFECT; SORE THROAT; SUBSPECIES; SWELLING; TONSILLITIS; TULAREMIA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WATER SAMPLING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC DISEASES; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; TULAREMIA; TURKEY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957685561     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Penn RL. Francisella tularensis (Tularaemia). In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, eds. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. Philadelphia: Elsevier-Churchill Livingstone, 2005: 2674-85.
2. Dennis DT. Tularaemia. In: Gorbach SL, Bartlett JG, Blacklow NR, eds. Infectious Diseases. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004: 1446-51.
3. Tarnvik A, Berglund L. Tularaemia. Eur Respir J 2003; 21:361-73.
4. Tarnvik A, Priebe HS, Grunow R. Tularaemia in Europe: an epidemiological overview. Scand J Infect Dis 2004; 36:350-5.
5. Versage JL, Severin DD, Chu MC, Petersen JM. Development of a multitarget real-time TaqMan PCR assay for enhanced detection of Francisella tularensis in complex specimens. J Clin Microbiol 2003; 41:5492-9.
6. Gotschlich E, Berkin T. [Epidemiological and bacteriological studies on tularaemia in Trakya]. Tr Hij Tec Biol Derg 1938;1:115-22. Turkish.
7. Helvaci S, Gedikoglu S, Akalin H, Oral HB. Tularaemia in Bursa, Turkey: 205 cases in ten years. Eur J Epidemiol 2000; 16:271-6.
8. Celebi G, Baruonu F, Ayoglu F, et al. Tularaemia, a reemerging disease in northwest Turkey: epidemiological investigation and evaluation of treatment responses. Jpn J Infect Dis 2006; 59:229-34.
9. Gurcan S, Eskiocak M, Varol G, et al. Tularaemia re-emerging in European part of Turkey after 60 years. Jpn J Infect Dis 2006; 59:391-3.
10. Meric M, Sayan M, Willke A, Gedikoglu S. [A small water-borne tularemia outbreak]. Mikrobiyol Bul 2008; 42:49-59. Turkish.
11. Willke A, Meric M, Grunow R, et al. An outbreak of oropharyngeal tularaemia linked to natural spring water. J Med Microbiol 2009; 58:112-6.
12. Ozdemir D, Sencan I, Annakkaya AN, et al. Comparison of the 2000 and 2005 outbreaks of tularemia in the Düzce region of Turkey. Jpn J Infect Dis 2007; 60:51-2.
13. Anda P, Segura del Pozo J, Diaz Garcia JM, et al. Waterborne outbreak of tularemia associated with crayfsh fshing. Emerg Infect Dis 2001; 7:575-82.
14. Ellis J, Oyston PC, Green M, Titball RW. Tularemia. Clin Microbiol Rev 2002; 15:631-46.
15. Meric M, Willke A, Finke EJ, et al. Evaluation of clinical, laboratory, and therapeutic features of 145 tularemia cases: the role of quinolones in oropharyngeal tularemia. APMIS 2008; 116:66-73.
16. Capellan J, Fong IW. Tularemia from a cat bite: case report and review of feline-associated tularemia. Clin Infect Dis 1993; 16:472-5.
17. Senol M, Ozcan A, Karincaoglu Y, Aydin A, Ozerol IH. Tularemia: a case transmitted from a sheep. Cutis 1999; 63:49-51.
18. Steward SJ. Tularaemia. In: Collier L, Balows A, Susman M, eds. Microbiology and Microbial Infections. Bacterial Infections. New York: Oxford University Pres, 1998: 949-54.