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JOURNAL OF VETERINARY DIAGNOSTIC INVESTIGATION
Volume 25, Issue 4, Pages 519-521Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1040638713489124
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Diagnostics; Francisella tularensis; inconsistent pathological lesions; martens
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- Swiss Federal Office for the Environment [12.0003.KP/L121-0964]
- Swiss Expert Committee for Biosafety [04.1240.PZ/L064-7521]
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The current report describes the isolation and typing of a strain of Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia, from the spleen of a stone marten (Martes foina) showing no classic lesions consistent with the disease. The identification of this bacterium, belonging to the World Health Organization risk 3 category and considered to have a low infectious dose, could be performed only because of an ongoing project screening F. tularensis in the environment sensu lato. The findings described herein should alert diagnostic laboratories of the possible presence of F. tularensis in clinical samples in countries where tularemia is endemic even in cases with no consistent anamnesis and from unsuspected animal species.
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