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Genotyping and phylogenetic placement of Bacillus anthracis isolates from Finland, a country with rare anthrax cases.
BMC microbiology - 3 Sept 2018
Lienemann Taru, Beyer Wolfgang, Pelkola Kirsti, Rossow Heidi, Rehn Alexandra, Antwerpen Markus, Grass Gregor
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Anthrax, the zoonotic disease caused by the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is nowadays rare in northern parts of Europe including Finland and Scandinavia. Only two minor outbreaks of anthrax in 1988 and in 2004 and one sporadic infection in 2008 have been detected in animals in Finland since the 1970's. Here, we report on two Finnish B. anthracis strains that were isolated from spleen and...
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