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What are the different types of tularemia?
Five types of illness may occur, depending on where/how the bacteria enter the body: Ulceroglandular/glandular tularemia, Oculoglandular tularemia,Oropharyngeal and gastrointestinal tularemia, Pulmonary tularemia, Typhoidal tularemia
How common is Oculoglandular tularemia?
This type accounts for only about 1% of all cases of tularemia
What is the most common form of tularemia?
Ulceroglandular/glandular tularemia. Seventy-five to 85% of all cases are of this type.
Where is tularemia found in the US?
In the United States, the vast majority of cases of tularemia occur in the southeastern and Rocky Mountain states.
How do squirrels get tularemia?
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Should tularemia be treated with chloramphenicol of streptomycin?
Tularemia can be treated with drugs, the best choices being streptomycin. There is a vaccine for it but not many people get it because it can be dangerous.
What is an Infectious disease starting with Tu?
One of them is Tularemia.
Which of the bacterial diseases produces ulcers on the skin?
Tularemia
Does Tularemia produce skin lesion?
Tularemia is a rare infectious disease that typically attacks the skin, eyes, lymph nodes and lungs. Tularemia — also called rabbit fever or deer fly fever — is caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. There is usually an ulcer seen at the site of infection.
What is the shape of rabbit fever tularemia look like?
circle
How does tularemia spreds?
Tularemia can spread by handling or eating insufficently cooked rabbit meat, handling an infected carcass, or coming in contact with fluids from an infected deerfly, horsefly, tick, or mosquitoe.
Is tularemia fatal?
With treatment, death rates from tularemia are under 1%. Without treatment, however, the Death Rate may reach 30%. The pneumonia and typhoidal types have the worst prognosis without treatment.
