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Intratracheal Inoculation of Fischer 344 Rats with Francisella tularensis
Published on: September 30, 2017
Francisella tularensis subspecies holarctica, Tasmania, Australia, 2011
Justin Jackson1, Alistair McGregor, Louise Cooley
1Royal Hobart Hospital, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|August 31, 2012
Abstract:
We report a case of ulceroglandular tularemia that developed in a woman after she was bitten by a ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) in a forest in Tasmania, Australia. Francisella tularensis subspecies holarctica was identified. This case indicates the emergence of F. tularensis type B in the Southern Hemisphere.

