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Anthrax among heroin users in Europe possibly caused by same Bacillus anthracis strain since 2000.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 28 Mar 2013
Grunow R, Klee S R, Beyer W, George M, Grunow D, Barduhn A, Klar S, Jacob D, Elschner M, Sandven P, Kjerulf A, Jensen J S, Cai W, Zimmermann R, Schaade L
Abstract excerpt
Injection anthrax was described first in 2000 in a heroin-injecting drug user in Norway. New anthrax cases among heroin consumers were detected in the United Kingdom (52 cases) and Germany (3 cases) in 2009-10. In June 2012, a fatal case occurred in Regensburg, Bavaria. As of December 2012, 13 cases had been reported in this new outbreak from Germany, Denmark, France and the United Kingdom. We analysed isolates...
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