Tularemia outbreak investigations: A review.

B Methods and materials: b Two searchers were conducted using: «tularemia outbreak» and «francisella tularensis outbreak» in title and/or abstract using PubMed database for articles that had been published until 01.10.2018. B Background: b Tularemia is a highly contagious, multi-systemic zoonotic disease caused by francisella tularensis that can give rise to outbreaks. Tularemia outbreaks can occur via several transmission ways; evidence shows that even though a certain group, for example one family, is infected with the same source, individuals can develop different forms of the disease according to the port of entry. [Extracted from the article]