Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2015)

Water as Source of Francisella tularensis Infection in Humans, Turkey

  • Selcuk Kilic,
  • Dawn N. Birdsell,
  • Alper Karagöz,
  • Bekir Çelebi,
  • Zekiye Bakkaloglu,
  • Muzaffer Arikan,
  • Jason W. Sahl,
  • Cedar Mitchell,
  • Andrew Rivera,
  • Sara Maltinsky,
  • Paul Keim,
  • Duran Üstek,
  • Rıza Durmaz,
  • David M. Wagner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2112.150634
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 12
pp. 2213 – 2216

Abstract

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Francisella tularensis DNA extractions and isolates from the environment and humans were genetically characterized to elucidate environmental sources that cause human tularemia in Turkey. Extensive genetic diversity consistent with genotypes from human outbreaks was identified in environmental samples and confirmed water as a source of human tularemia in Turkey.

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