Preliminary case report of fatal anthrax in an injecting drug user in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, December 2009.
A fatal case of anthrax occurred in an injecting drug user in Germany, in December 2009. A potential link to similar cases in Scotland in the same time period is currently under investigation.
Radun
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Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany. RadunD@rki.de
Bernard
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Altmann
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Schöneberg
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Bochat
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van Treeck
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Rippe
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RM
Grunow
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Elschner
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M
Biederbick
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Krause
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D000368:Aged; D000881:Anthrax / Q000209:etiology*; D001408:Bacillus anthracis / Q000472:pathogenicity; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000382:microbiology*