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Title: Tularemia, a reemerging disease in northwest Turkey: Epidemiological investigation and evaluation of treatment responses
Authors: Çelebi, Güven
Baruönü, Fatma
Ayoğlu, Ferruh
Çınar, Fikret
Karadenizli, Aynur
Uğur, Birol Mehmet
Uludağ Üniversitesi/Tıp Fakültesi/Enfeksiyon Hastalıkları ve Klinik Mikrobiyoloji Anabilim Dalı.
Gedikoğlu, Suna
6603407548
Keywords: Infectious diseases
Antibodies
Diagnosis
PCR
Outbreak
Ulceroglandular tularemia
Francisella-tularensis
Issue Date: 2006
Publisher: Natl Inst Infectious Diseases
Citation: Çelebi, G. vd. (2006). ''Tularemia, a reemerging disease in northwest Turkey: Epidemiological investigation and evaluation of treatment responses''. Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases, 59(4), 229-234.
Abstract: An outbreak of tularemia occurred in three provinces in Turkey in February 2004 and reemerged in the same provinces in February 2005. A total of 61 cases, 54 of which were confirmed with the micro-agglutination test, were diagnosed with oropharyngeal tularemia. No culture for Francisella tularensis was attempted, but PCR for F. tularensis was positive in aspiration material of suppurated lymphadenitis of 7 patients. F. tularensis detection with PCR was negative in water samples, but epidemiologic and environmental findings suggested that contaminated water or food was the cause of the outbreaks. Late initiation antibiotic therapy could not prevent suppuration and draining of the involved lymph nodes.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11452/21503
ISSN: 1344-6304
1884-2836
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