1. Tularaemia in a brown hare (Lepus europaeus) in 2013: first case in the Netherlands in 60 years.
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Rijks JM, Kik M, Koene MG, Engelsma MY, van Tulden P, Montizaan MG, Oomen T, Spierenburg MA, Ijzer J, van der Giessen JW, Gröne A, and Roest HJ
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- Animals, Disease Reservoirs microbiology, Francisella tularensis genetics, Humans, Netherlands, Polymerase Chain Reaction veterinary, Sentinel Surveillance, Tularemia microbiology, Tularemia pathology, Disease Reservoirs veterinary, Francisella tularensis isolation & purification, Hares microbiology, Tularemia veterinary
- Abstract
Tularaemia has not been reported in Dutch wildlife since 1953. To enhance detection, as of July 2011, brown hares (Lepus europaeus) submitted for postmortem examination in the context of non-targeted wildlife disease surveillance, were routinely tested for tularaemia by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Francisella tularensis subspecies holarctica infection was confirmed in a hare submitted in May 2013. The case occurred in Limburg, near the site of the 1953 case. Further surveillance should clarify the significance of this finding.
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- 2013
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