Tularemia Links and References

Select Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports:

Brief Report: Tularemia associated with a hamster bite -- Colorado, 2004. 53(51 & 52);1202-1203.

Tularemia --- United States, 1990--2000. 51(09);182-4.

Tularemia in Recent Publications:

Kugeler K.J., Mead PS, Janusz AM, Staples JE, Kubota KA, Chalcraft LG, Peteresen JM. Molecular Epidemiology of Francisella tularensis in the United States. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2009; 48(7):863-70.

Avashia SB, Petersen JM, Lindley CM, Schriefer ME, Gage KL, et al. First reported prairie dog to human tularemia transmission, Texas, 2002. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004:10(3).

Staples JE, Kubota KA, Chalcraft LG, Mead PS, Petersen JM. Epidemiologic and molecular analysis of human tularemia, United States, 1964-2004. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Jul; 12(7):1113-8.

Feldman KA, Stiles-Enos D, Julian K, Matyas BT, Telford SR 3rd, et al. Tularemia on Martha's Vineyard: seroprevalence and occupational risk. [PDF - 5 pages] Emerg Infect Dis. 2003 Mar; 9(3):350-4.

Dennis DT, Inglesby TV, Henderson DA, Bartlett JG, Ascher MS, et al. Tularemia as a biological weapon: medical and public health management. JAMA. 2001 Jun 6;285(21):2763-73.

Tarnvik A. WHO Guidelines on Tularaemia. Vol. WHO/CDS/EPR/2007.7. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2007.

Urich SK, Petersen JM. In vitro susceptibility of isolates of Francisella tularensis types A and B from North America. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2008 Jun;52(6):2276-8.

Eisen RJ, Mead PS, Meyer AM, Pfaff LE, Bradley KK, Eisen L. Ecoepidemiology of tularemia in the southcentral United States. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2008 Apr; 78(4):586-94.

Feldman KA, Enscore RE, Lathrop SL, Matyas BT, McGuill M, et al. An outbreak of primary pneumonic tularemia on Martha's Vineyard. N Engl J Med. 2001 Nov 29;345(22):1601-6.