Evidence of circulation of an epidemic strain of in France by multispacer typing

W. Li (1, 2) , Didier Raoult (1) , Jean-Marc Rolain (1) , B. Scola (1)

1 URMITE - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes
2 Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Multispacer typing (MST) was used to type ten strains detected in French patients. Incorporating 79 Swedish strains, phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that although tularemia appears as a sporadic disease in France, it is caused by an epidemic cluster of strains.

Mots clés: Genotyping; Epidemiology; France

W. Li, Didier Raoult, Jean-Marc Rolain, B. Scola. Evidence of circulation of an epidemic strain of in France by multispacer typing. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2011, 30 (9), pp.1135-1138. ⟨10.1007/s10096-011-1186-1⟩. ⟨hal-00701265⟩