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Oropharyngeal tularemia outbreak linked to drinking contaminated tap water in North-Western Iran.

Parisa EsmaeiliSimin KhayatzadehMax MaurinMohammad Mehdi GouyaSaber EsmaeiliEhsan Mostafavi
Published in: Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease (2024)
Tularemia is a widespread bacterial disease caused by Francisella tularensis. Iran is an endemic country for this zoonosis. In this report, we present a 2020 tularemia outbreak in a village in northwestern Iran involving 15 patients with the oropharyngeal form of the disease. This outbreak was probably linked to the consumption of contaminated drinking water.
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