1. Diverse Francisella Tularensis Strains And Oropharyngeal Tularemia, Turkey
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David M. Wagner, Yasemin Ozsurekci, Melda Celik, Amy J. Vogler, Paul Keim, Eda Karadag-Oncel, Mats Forsman, Dawn N. Birdsell, Mehmet Ceyhan, Anders Johansson, and İç Hastalıkları
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Microbiology (medical) ,Letter ,Turkey ,Epidemiology ,Oropharyngeal tularemia ,lcsh:Medicine ,SNP ,Diverse Francisella tularensis Strains and Oropharyngeal Tularemia, Turkey ,Biology ,Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ,complex mixtures ,Zoonotic disease ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,Disease Outbreaks ,Microbiology ,Tularemia ,medicine ,Humans ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,Francisella tularensis ,Letters to the Editor ,bacteria ,Phylogeny ,canSNP ,lcsh:R ,Zoonosis ,Outbreak ,hemic and immune systems ,Pharyngeal Diseases ,respiratory system ,bacterial infections and mycoses ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Virology ,tularemia ,Phylogeography ,Infectious Diseases ,clinical sample ,Genes, Bacterial - Abstract
To the Editor: Tularemia is a zoonosis caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis; the main forms of disease that occur in humans are ulceroglandular/glandular, oculoglandular, oropharyngeal, and respiratory. In Turkey, tularemia outbreaks were described as early as 1936–1938 (1), but tularemia was not reportable until 2004. Recently, multiple tularemia outbreaks in Turkey have been described, including in regions where the disease has not been previously reported; it is now considered a reemerging zoonotic disease in Turkey (1).
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- 2015