Lack of Tularemia Among Health Care Providers With Close Contact With Infected Patients—A Case Series | Zendy

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Lack of Tularemia Among Health Care Providers With Close Contact With Infected Patients—A Case Series

Author(s) -

Christina A. Nelson,

Jennifer Brown,

Linda Riley,

Anne Dennis,

Ryan Oyer,

Catherine Brown

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

open forum infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.546

H-Index - 35

ISSN - 2328-8957

DOI - 10.1093/ofid/ofz499

Subject(s) - medicine , tularemia , series (stratigraphy) , contact tracing , family medicine , virology , covid-19 , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , paleontology , biology

Francisella tularensis has a low infectious dose and can infect laboratory staff handling clinical specimens. The risk to health care providers exposed during patient care is poorly defined. We describe 9 examples of health care providers who did not develop tularemia after significant exposures to infected patients.

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