Tularaemia in minnesota: Case report and brief epidemiology

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 57, Issue 7-8, 2010, Pages

  Scheftel, J M ^a   Griffith, J M ^a   Leppke, B A ^b   Pantlin, G C ^c   Snippes, P M ^a   Wunschmann A ^c  

^a MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Shady Oak Veterinary Clinic   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging disease; Epidemiology infectious diseases; Francisella tularensis; One Health; Tularaemia; Zoonoses bacterial

Indexed keywords

AGAR; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CAT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COUGHING; DEHYDRATION; FEMALE; FEVER; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; LETHARGY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHADENITIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMATITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TONGUE ULCER; TONSILLITIS; TULAREMIA; TYPHLITIS; TYPHOID FEVER; UNITED STATES; YERSINIOSIS;

ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; BITES AND STINGS; CATS; CIPROFLOXACIN; CONTACT TRACING; DOXYCYCLINE; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MINNESOTA; PETS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TULAREMIA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS;

EID: 78649662882     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2009.01318.x     Document Type: Article

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