Preliminary case report of fatal anthrax in an injecting drug user in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, December 2009

D Radun; H Bernard; M Altmann; I Schöneberg; V Bochat; U van Treeck; R M Rippe; R Grunow; M Elschner; W Biederbick; G Krause

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Preliminary case report of fatal anthrax in an injecting drug user in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, December 2009
D Radun¹ , H Bernard¹ , M Altmann^1,2,3 , I Schöneberg¹ , V Bochat⁴ , U van Treeck⁵ , R M Rippe⁶ , R Grunow⁷ , M Elschner⁸ , W Biederbick⁹ , G Krause¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany ² Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology („PAE”, German Field Epidemiology Training Programme) at the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany ³ European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden ⁴ Local Health Department, Aachen, Germany ⁵ Federal State Health Department, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Duesseldorf, Germany ⁶ Federal Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs North-Rhine-Westphalia, Duesseldorf, Germany ⁷ Center for Biological Security, Div. Highly Pathogenic Microorganisms , Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany ⁸ Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Jena, Germany ⁹ Federal Information Centre for Biological Safety, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany

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Citation style for this article: Radun D, Bernard H, Altmann M, Schöneberg I, Bochat V, van Treeck U, Rippe R M, Grunow R, Elschner M, Biederbick W, Krause G. Preliminary case report of fatal anthrax in an injecting drug user in North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, December 2009. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(2):pii=19464. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.15.02.19464-en Received: 14 Jan 2010

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A fatal case of anthrax occurred in an injecting drug user in Germany, in December 2009. A potential link to similar cases in Scotland in the same time period is currently under investigation.

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