Long-Term Survival of Virulent Tularemia Pathogens outside a Host in Conditions That Mimic Natural Aquatic Environments-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Long-Term Survival of Virulent Tularemia Pathogens outside a Host in Conditions That Mimic Natural Aquatic Environments

Published:2021-02-26 Issue:6 Volume:87 Page:
ISSN:0099-2240
Container-title:Applied and Environmental Microbiology
language:en
Short-container-title:Appl Environ Microbiol

Author:

Golovliov Igor¹²,Bäckman Stina³,Granberg Malin³,Salomonsson Emelie³,Lundmark Eva³,Näslund Jonas³,Busch Joseph D.⁴,Birdsell Dawn⁴,Sahl Jason W.⁴,Wagner David M.⁴^ORCID,Johansson Anders¹²^ORCID,Forsman Mats³,Thelaus Johanna³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

2. Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

3. Division of CBRN Defence and Security, Swedish Defence Research Agency FOI, Umeå, Sweden

4. Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

Abstract

Tularemia, a disease caused by the environmental bacterium Francisella tularensis , is characterized by acute febrile illness. F. tularensis is highly infectious: as few as 10 organisms can cause human disease. Tularemia is not known to be spread from person to person.

Funder

The Swedish Ministry of Defence

DOD | Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/AEM.02713-20

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