Volume 21, Number 1—January 2015
Research
Epidemiology and Ecology of Tularemia in Sweden, 1984–2012
Amélie Desvars, Maria Furberg, Marika Hjertqvist, Linda Vidman, Anders Sjöstedt, Patrik Rydén, and Anders Johansson
Table
Human tularemia notifications, by study period and geographic location, Sweden, 1984–2012*
| Study period | No. cases (incidence) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Sweden | Southern Sweden | All Sweden | |
| First half, 1984–1998 | 324 (1.17) | 19 (0.02) | 343 (0.26) |
| Second half, 1999–2012 |
2,034 (8.61) |
1,147 (1.14) |
3,181 (2.47) |
| Full study, 1984–2012 | 2,358 (4.52) | 1,166 (0.56) | 3,524 (1.37) |
*Only cases for which high-quality data on disease onset date and location of disease exposure were available were included. Incidence is given as no. case-patients/100,000 persons/year.
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