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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tularemia::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | deer fly fever, rabbit fever, tularaemia, yatobyo |
| Type of | zoonosis, zoonotic disease |
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Naturally occurring tularemia is a mild disease easily treated with antibiotics.
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A person infected with tularemia cannot pass the disease on to another person.
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The bacterium at fault, Francisella tularensis, causes the disease tularemia.
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In the normal population of mice, none survived their respiratory tularemia.
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F. tularensis is the pathogen responsible for causing the disease tularemia.
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For tularemia, doxycycline and ciprofloxacin are the antibiotics of choice.
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Their research will focus on creating antibiotics to fight anthrax, plague and tularemia.
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Farmers, hunters, walkers and forest workers are most at risk of contracting tularemia.
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They also pose disease threats, carrying plague, tularemia and rabies.
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- 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. ...
- Bacterial infection by Francisella tularensis, causing fever, skin lesions, and other symptoms
- A disease of rodents, lagomorphs, certain birds and sometimes humans, due to infection caused by the microorganism Pasteurella tularensis and transmitted by fleas and ticks; characterized by fever, headache, muscle pain, and nodule formations in the liver, spleen, and lymph nodes (Morris 1992).
- Is a acute illness, endemic in animal populations but with high biological warfare potential, caused by Francisella tularensis. Untreated, it can be 15% or more lethal, but mortality drops to 1% when appropriate antibiotics are given promptly.
- From rabbits and wild rodents.
