Large outbreak of tularaemia, central Sweden, July to September 2019

On 31 of July 2019, the Public Health Agency of Sweden was alerted about an increasing number of tularaemia cases in Gävleborg, a county in central Sweden. The number of cases increased thereafter peaking at about 150 reports of illnesses every week. As at 6 October, a total of 979 cases (734 labora...

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Autores principales: Dryselius, Rikard, Hjertqvist, Marika, Mäkitalo, Signar, Lindblom, Anders, Lilja, Tobias, Eklöf, Disa, Lindström, Anders
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2019
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6807254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31640844
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.42.1900603
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author Dryselius, Rikard
Hjertqvist, Marika
Mäkitalo, Signar
Lindblom, Anders
Lilja, Tobias
Eklöf, Disa
Lindström, Anders
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description On 31 of July 2019, the Public Health Agency of Sweden was alerted about an increasing number of tularaemia cases in Gävleborg, a county in central Sweden. The number of cases increased thereafter peaking at about 150 reports of illnesses every week. As at 6 October, a total of 979 cases (734 laboratory-confirmed) have been reported, mainly from counties in central Sweden. The outbreak is now considered over (as at 14 October).
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spelling pubmed-68072542019-11-07 Large outbreak of tularaemia, central Sweden, July to September 2019 Dryselius, Rikard Hjertqvist, Marika Mäkitalo, Signar Lindblom, Anders Lilja, Tobias Eklöf, Disa Lindström, Anders Euro Surveill Rapid Communication On 31 of July 2019, the Public Health Agency of Sweden was alerted about an increasing number of tularaemia cases in Gävleborg, a county in central Sweden. The number of cases increased thereafter peaking at about 150 reports of illnesses every week. As at 6 October, a total of 979 cases (734 laboratory-confirmed) have been reported, mainly from counties in central Sweden. The outbreak is now considered over (as at 14 October). European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2019-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC6807254/ /pubmed/31640844 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.42.1900603 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6807254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31640844
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.42.1900603
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