a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals
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tularaemia::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | deer fly fever, rabbit fever, tularemia, yatobyo |
| Type of | zoonosis, zoonotic disease |
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The diseases caused are anthrax, botulism, tularaemia, plague, smallpox and haemorrhagic fever.
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Four-fifths of the animals survived tularaemia, whereas just 10% of the untreated mice pulled through.
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University and health officials say there was no need for this because tularaemia cannot be passed from person to person.
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In fact, no one suspected tularaemia when two lab workers fell ill in May, although one spent a night in the hospital.
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A third researcher was hospitalised in September 2004, but the illnesses were not linked to tularaemia until October.
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Oxytetracycline is especially valuable in treating nonspecific urethritis, Lyme disease, brucellosis, cholera, typhus, tularaemia.
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University officials say tests revealed their supposedly harmless tularaemia bacterium samples had been tainted with a virulent strain.
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On 20 January, Boston University officials confirmed that three lab workers contracted tularaemia last year after handling a supposedly harmless strain.
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They had handled the samples with no special precautions, even though doctors who treated the patient suspected he had died of tularaemia.
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- Tularemia: a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals
- Tularemia (also known as Pahvant Valley plague, rabbit fever, deer fly fever, Ohara's fever) is a serious infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. A Gram-negative, nonmotile coccobacillus, the bacterium has several subspecies with varying degrees of virulence. ...
