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Volume 29, Number 11—November 2023
Dispatch

Three Cases of Tickborne Francisella tularensis Infection, Austria, 2022

Florian Heger, Stefanie Schindler, Sonja Pleininger, Astrid Fueszl, Marion Blaschitz, Kathrin Lippert, Patrick Hyden, Peter Hufnagl, David Mutschlechner, Thomas Gremmel, Erwin Hofer, Mateusz Markowicz1, and Alexander Indra1
Author affiliations: Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, Vienna, Austria (F. Heger, S. Schindler, S. Pleininger, A. Fueszl, M. Blaschitz, K. Lippert, P. Hyden, P. Hufnagl, E. Hofer, M. Markowicz, A. Indra); Cardiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Mistelbach, Austria (D. Mutschlechner, T. Gremmel); Institute of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy and Interventional Cardiology, St. Pölten, Austria (T. Gremmel); Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria (A. Indra)

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Table

Antimicrobial MICs for Francisella tularensis isolates recovered from 3 patients with tickborne tularemia, Austria*

Patient MIC, mg/L
Gentamicin Erythromycin Ciprofloxacin Tetracycline Doxycycline Streptomycin
1 0.25 >256 0.008 0.047 0.094 1.5
2 0.5 >256 0.012 0.032 0.19 3
3 0.19 >256 0.008 0.125 0.125 0.75

*Boldface indicates antimicrobial resistance according to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute standards (6).

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1These senior authors contributed equally to this article.

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