title: Tularaemia in Berlin - two independent cases in travellers returning from central Anatolia, Turkey, February 2011.
abstract: Tularaemia, though rare, has recently been increasingly reported in Germany. Most cases are indigenous infections. This report describes two epidemiologically independent infections with Francisella tularensis subspecies holarctica detected in Berlin in February 2011 that were acquired in central Anatolia, Turkey. In Turkey, there have been repeated tularaemia outbreaks since 2000 and the disease should therefore be considered as a differential diagnosis in travellers returning from that country.
authors.affiliation: Infectious Disease Protection and Epidemiology Unit, State Office for Health and Social Affairs (LAGeSo), Federal State of Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Amadeus.Schubert@lageso.berlin.de
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schubert
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Splettstoesser
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bätzing-Feigenbaum
mesh_terms: D001604:Berlin / Q000453:epidemiology; D005604:Francisella tularensis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D014195:Travel; D014406:Tularemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult