title: Preliminary case report of fatal anthrax in an injecting drug user in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, December 2009.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany. RadunD@rki.de
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Radun
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bernard
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Altmann
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Schöneberg
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bochat
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: van Treeck
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Rippe
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Grunow
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elschner
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Biederbick
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Krause
mesh_terms: 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*