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Volume 21, Number 1—January 2015
Letter

Diverse Francisella tularensis Strains and Oropharyngeal Tularemia, Turkey

Yasemin Özsürekci1, Dawn N. Birdsell1, Melda Çelik, Eda Karadağ-Öncel, Anders Johansson, Mats Forsman, Amy J. Vogler, Paul Keim, Mehmet Ceyhan, and David M. WagnerComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey (Y. Özsürekci, M. Çelik, E. Karadağ-Öncel, M. Ceyhan); Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA (D.N. Birdsell, A.J. Vogler, P. Keim, D.M. Wagner); Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden (A. Johansson); Swedish Defence Research Agency, Umeå (M. Forsman); Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff (P. Keim)

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Table

Francisella tularensis–positive clinical samples from 14 patients with oropharyngeal tularemia, Turkey, December 2009–January 2011*

Patient no. (sample no.) City CanSNP subgroup† MLVA genotype‡
1 (F0737) Corum B.20/21/33 i
2 (F0738) Cankırı B.28/29 b
3 (F0739) Yozgat B.28/29 b
4 (F0740) Zonguldak B.7/8 a
5 (F0741) Corum B.20/21/33 e
6 (F0742) Corum B.20/21/33 e
7 (F0743) Corum B.20/21/33§ ND
8 (F0744)¶ Bala/Ankara B.20/21/33 e
9 (F0745) Ankara B.20/21/33 d
10 (F0746) Corum B.20/21/33 j
11 (F0747) Bala/Ankara B.20/21/33 g
12 (F0748) Corum B.20/21/33 f
13 (F0749) Ankara B.20/21/33 c
14 (F0750) Emirdağ/Afyon B.20/21/33 h

*Clinical samples collected in 2011 from patients with cervical lymphadenitis at Hacettepe University Medical Faculty, Pediatric Infectious Disease unit, Ankara, Turkey. CanSNP, canonical single-nucleotide polymorphism; MLVA, multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis; ND, not determined.
†Subgroups published in (3,4,6,7). CanSNP branches tested on samples in this study: B.3, B.4, B.5, B.6, B.7, B.8, B.9, B.10, B.11, B.13, B.20, B.21, B.22, B.26, B.27, B.28, B.29, B.30, B.31, B.32, and B.33.
‡MLVA markers (M03, M05, M06, M20) (2).
§Subgroup classification based on approximation because genotype for B.33 remains unresolved.
¶This patient was an adult (all others were children).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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