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Nikola Passiouk1, Ulrich Heininger
1From the *Pediatrics, Hôpital du Jura, Delémonts, Switzerland; and †Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, University of Basel Children's Hospital, Basel, Switzerland.
Abstract:
We report on a 13-year-old patient who developed ulceroglandular tularemia after having assisted in slaughtering a hunted boar. He presented with a digital skin ulcer and enlarged lymph nodes. Clinically suspected tularemia was proven by real-time polymerase chain reaction performed on a skin ulcer biopsy and swab and by positive serology. This is the first reported case of tularemia after contact with a boar.
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