Further studies on tularemia in Alaska: human tularemia
The extent of tularemic infection in Indians in east-central Alaska and in Eskimos in southwestern Alaska was determined serologically. A greater percentage of Indians (6.9) had agglutinins than did Eskimos (3.6). Indications of recent infection were found only in the Indians. Neither of the two Ind...
| Published in: | Canadian Journal of Microbiology |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Canadian Science Publishing
1974
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/m74-241 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/m74-241 |
| Summary: | The extent of tularemic infection in Indians in east-central Alaska and in Eskimos in southwestern Alaska was determined serologically. A greater percentage of Indians (6.9) had agglutinins than did Eskimos (3.6). Indications of recent infection were found only in the Indians. Neither of the two Indians who experienced seroconversion during the study had a history of clinical illness. A clinical case of tularemia in a laboratory worker is described, the severity of which seems to preclude the hare-tick strain of Francisella tularensis as the etiologic agent in inapparent infections in the aboriginal populations. Further epidemiological and epizootiologic investigations of tularemia in subarctic North America are indicated, since outbreaks associated with the water-rodent strain elsewhere suggest that its low virulence in the indigenous people may not be constant. |
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