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Case Reports
. 1985 Sep;1(3):232-3.
doi: 10.1007/BF00234096.

A family outbreak of tularemia

D Greco, E Ninu
Case Reports

A family outbreak of tularemia

D Greco et al. Eur J Epidemiol. 1985 Sep.

Abstract

A family cluster of tularemia is described. In a family of three members different clinical type of the disease occurred after having been exposed to a sick wild hare. From the hare kidney Francisella tularensis type 1 was isolated. Pneumonic, typhoid-like tularemia occurred in the father who inhaled hare skin hairs and an ulceroglandular form in the mother and in the child who had direct contact with the animal.

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