A case report of human tularemia from Iran
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Mahdi Rohani
,
Behzad Mohsenpour
,
Ahmad Ghasemi
,
Saber Esmaeili
,
Mohammad Karimi
,
Heinrich Neubauer
,
Herbert Tomaso
,
Ehsan Mostafavi
Abstract
Tularemia is one of the most contagious bacterial infections. Here, we report a human case of glandular tularemia in Iran following the first report in 1980. The patient was a 6-year-old girl who had consumed a hunted hare in Kurdistan Province in western Iran.
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