An outbreak of respiratory tularemia caused by diverse clones of francisella tularensis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1546-1553

  Johansson, Anders ^a   Lärkeryd, Adrian ^b   Widerström, Micael ^a   Mörtberg, Sara ^c   Myrtännäs, Kerstin ^b   Öhrman, Caroline ^b   Birdsell, Dawn ^d   Keim, Paul ^d   Wagner, David M ^d   Forsman, Mats ^b   Larsson, Pär ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^c ÖSTERSUND HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial infections; Epidemiology; Francisella tularensis; Genomics; Tularemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLADISTICS; CLONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TULAREMIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SWEDEN; TULAREMIA; VERY ELDERLY; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SWEDEN; TULAREMIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924420523     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu621     Document Type: Article

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