[Prevalence of epidemic outbreak of tularemia in the Hospital Universitario Río Hortega (Spain) in the year 2007].

Autor:	Martín-Rodríguez L; Laboratorio de Inmunología, Servicio de Análisis Clínicos, Hospital Universitario Río Hortega, SACYL, Valladolid, España. lourma04@yahoo.es, Iglesias-García R, Del Río-Martín M, Mazón-Ramos MA, Arranz-Peña ML
Jazyk:	Spanish; Castilian
Zdroj:	Revista clinica espanola [Rev Clin Esp] 2009 Jul-Aug; Vol. 209 (7), pp. 342-6.
DOI:	10.1016/s0014-2565(09)71819-3
Abstrakt:	Introduction: This present research study presents the analytic results of an outbreak of tularemia (Francisella tularensis) that occurred in the Northwest areas of Castilla y León in Northern Spain in late June 2007. Patients and Methods: Serum was obtained from 302 patients from a West Valladolid health area, attended in the University Hospital of Río Hortega of the Castilla y León Health Care Service, with suspicion of tularemia. A tube agglutination test was performed in all of them to detect anti-F. tularensis antibodies. Results: Anti-F. tularensis antibodies were detected in 59 (19%) of reported cases (302 sera). The most frequent clinical presentations of the disease suggest that the main transmission pathway was through inhalation of the bacteria. Conclusions: When the 2007 outbreak of human tularemia was compared with that which occurred in 1997, we observed a lower number of positive cases in the recent outbreak as well as a difference in the transmission pathway and predominant form of clinical presentation of the disease.
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