Brucellosis — United States
In October 2016, the Idaho Bureau of Laboratories, Division of Public Health, was notified by hospital A’s clinical laboratory (a member of the Idaho Sentinel Laboratory Network) that a bacterial isolate cultured from a hospitalized patient’s knee joint fluid aspirate had been identified with 96 per cent confidence as _Francisella tularensis_ (a Tier 1 select agent*) by an in-house automated microbial identification system (AMIS). The isolate was submitted to the Idaho Bureau of Laboratories
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