| tularaemia in a brown hare (lepus europaeus) in 2013: first case in the netherlands in 60 years. | tularaemia has not been reported in dutch wildlife since 1953. to enhance detection, as of july 2011, brown hares (lepus europaeus) submitted for postmortem examination in the context of non-targeted wildlife disease surveillance, were routinely tested for tularaemia by polymerase chain reaction (pcr). francisella tularensis subspecies holarctica infection was confirmed in a hare submitted in may 2013. the case occurred in limburg, near the site of the 1953 case. further surveillance should clar ... | 2013 | 24330941 |