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A waterborne tularemia outbreak

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A waterborne tularemia outbreak is described. Forty nine cases were identified in Sansepolcro, a small Medioeval town in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. All cases had laterocervical or sub-mandibular adenitis, and occurred within a period of three weeks during March and April 1982.

The study showed association between cases and the consumption of water from an unchlorinated water system. Francisella tularensis type 1 was isolated from wild hares captured in the area.

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  1. Laboratorio di Epidemiologia e Biostatistica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, V.le Regina Elena, 299, 00161, Roma, Italy

    D. Greco & S. Luzi

  2. Local Health Unit, Sansepolcro, Italy

    G. Allegrini, T. Tizzi & E. Ninu

  3. Laboratorio di Microbiologia, Careggi Regional Hospital, Florence, Italy

    A. Lamanna

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Greco, D., Allegrini, G., Tizzi, T. et al. A waterborne tularemia outbreak. Eur J Epidemiol 3, 35–38 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00145070

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