Outbreak of tularaemia in central Norway, January to March 2011

Eurosurveillance

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Larssen, K W ^a   Afset, J E ^a,b   Heier, B T ^c   Krogh, T ^c   Handeland, K ^d   Vikoren T ^d   Bergh, K ^a,b  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FEVER; FRANCISELLA HOLARCTICA; FRANCISELLA MEDIASIATICA; FRANCISELLA NOVICIDA; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMAN; INSECT BITE; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; PHARYNGITIS; PHARYNX DISEASE; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROCONVERSION; SEROLOGY; TULAREMIA; WATER CONTAMINATION; WINTER; ZOONOSIS;

EID: 79954517665     PISSN: 1025496X     EISSN: 15607917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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