Volume 8, Number 9, September 2002

Research

The 2000 Tularemia Outbreak: A Case-Control Study of Risk Factors in Disease-Endemic and Emergent Areas, Sweden

Henrik Eliasson,* Johan Lindbäck,† J. Pekka Nuorti,‡ Malin Arneborn,† Johan Giesecke,† and Anders Tegnell†
*Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden; †Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna, Sweden; and ‡National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Figure 1. Map of Sweden showing the areas used in the analysis. Heavy shade marks tularemia-endemic area, medium shade the border area, and light shade the emergent area, where many cases occurred during the 2000 outbreak, but few cases were reported during the previous decade.

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