Volume 14, Number 7—July 2008

Dispatch

Sudden Onset of Pseudotuberculosis in Humans, France, 2004–05

Pascal Vincent*†‡¹ , Alexandre Leclercq§¹ , Liliane Martin§, Jean-Marie Duez¶, Michel Simonet*‡², Elisabeth Carniel§², and Yersinia Surveillance Network

Author affiliations: *Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Lille, France; †Université Lille 2, Lille; ‡Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille; §Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; ¶Centre Hospitalier du Bocage, Dijon, France;

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Figure 1

Figure 1. Map of France, showing spatial distribution of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infections during the winter of 2004–05. Black circles, patients' residences; open circles, cities with medical laboratories that stated that they had not isolated any Y. pseudotuberculosis from clinical specimens.

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¹These authors contributed equally to this article.

²These authors contributed equally to the supervision of this work.

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