Publications
[a small water-borne tularemia outbreak]. | the aim of this study was to investigate a small tularemia outbreak in a village of karamürsel county of kocaeli province (located in north-west part of turkey), between 22 january - 8 march 2005 and to present the anti-epidemic measures implemented. following diagnosis of oropharyngeal tularemia in two patients living in the same village, a field investigation was performed at this region. all patients have undergone physical examination. blood samples and if possible throat swabs and lymph nod ... | 2008 | 18444562 |
an outbreak of oropharyngeal tularaemia linked to natural spring water. | a tularaemia outbreak was investigated involving 188 suspected cases in the kocaeli region of turkey between december 2004 and april 2005. a case-control study comprising 135 laboratory-confirmed cases and 55 controls was undertaken to identify risk factors for the development of the outbreak and to evaluate laboratory diagnostic methods. tularaemia was confirmed by a microagglutination test (mat) titre of >or=1 : 160 in 90 of the patients. in mat-negative sera, 23/44 (52 %) were positive by eli ... | 2009 | 19074661 |