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A family cluster of tularemia is described. In a family of three members different clinical type of the disease occurred after having been exposed to a sick wild hare. From the hare kidney Francisella tularensis type 1 was isolated. Pneumonic, typhoid-like tularemia occurred in the father who inhaled hare skin hairs and an ulceroglandular form in the mother and in the child who had direct contact with the animal.
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Greco, D., Ninu, E. A family outbreak of tularemia. Eur J Epidemiol 1, 232–233 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00234096
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