Anda P, Segura del Pozo J, Díaz García JM, Escudero R, García Peña FJ, López Velasco MC, Sellek RE, Jiménez Chillarón MR, Sánchez Serrano LP, Martínez Navarro JF. Waterborne outbreak of tularemia associated with crayfish fishing.
Emerg Infect Dis 2001;
7:575-82. [PMID:
11485678 PMCID:
PMC2631832 DOI:
10.3201/eid0707.010740]
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Abstract
In 1997, an outbreak of human tularemia associated with hare-hunting in central Spain affected 585 patients. We describe the identification of Francisella tularensis biovar palaearctica in a second outbreak of ulceroglandular tularemia associated with crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) fishing in a contaminated freshwater stream distant from the hare-associated outbreak. The second outbreak occurred 1 year after the first.
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