Tularemia, also known as “rabbit fever,” is a zoonosis caused by the facultative intracellular,
gram-negative bacterium Francisella tularensis. Infection occurs through contact with …

The antibiotic classes that are recommended for tularaemia treatment are the
aminoglycosides, the fluoroquinolones and the tetracyclines. However, cure rates vary …

In recent years, an increasing diversity of species has been recognized within the family
Francisellaceae. Unfortunately, novel isolates are sometimes misnamed in initial …

In Germany tularemia is a re-emerging zoonotic disease. Therefore, we investigated wild
animals and environmental water samples for the presence and phylogenetic diversity of …

Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica isolates from Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and
Romania were placed into an existing phylogeographic framework. Isolates from Italy were …

Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by the facultative intracellular bacterium Francisella
tularensis. This microorganism can infect a plethora of animal species and its ecology is …

Previous studies of the causative agent of tularaemia, F rancisella tularensis have identified
phylogeographic patterns suggestive of environmental maintenance reservoirs. To …

Background Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by Francisella tularensis that has been
found in many different vertebrates. In Germany most human infections are caused by …

Francisella tularensis, the bacterium that causes the zoonosis tularemia, and its genetic near
neighbor species, can be difficult or impossible to cultivate from complex samples. Thus …

Advances in typing methodologies have recently reformed the field of molecular
epidemiology of pathogens. The falling cost of sequencing technologies is creating a deluge …