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Tularemia, also known as rabbit fever, is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. [4] Symptoms may include fever , skin ulcers , and enlarged lymph nodes . [ 3 ] Occasionally, a form that results in pneumonia or a throat infection may occur.
Tularemia, also known as rabbit fever, is a bacterial infection caused by Francisella tularensis, which can be transmitted through arthropod bites, infected animals or ingesting contaminated ...
Human infection with F. tularensis can occur by several routes. Portals of entry are through blood and the respiratory system. The most common occurs via skin contact, yielding an ulceroglandular form of the disease. Inhalation of bacteria, [8] particularly biovar F. t. tularensis, [citation needed] leads to the potentially lethal pneumonic ...
The most infamous flea-to-human transmitted disease is the bubonic plague, which was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The plague, fevers, tularemia: The diseases fleas can carry and how to ...
Bartonella: Bartonella transmission rates to humans via tick bite are not well established [34] but Bartonella is common in ticks. For example: 4.76% of 2100 ticks tested in a study in Germany [35] Tularemia. Organism: Francisella tularensis, A. americanum; Vector: D. variabilis, D. andersoni; Region (US): Southeast, South-central, West, widespread
Dermacentor variabilis, also known as the American dog tick or wood tick, is a species of tick that is known to carry bacteria responsible for several diseases in humans, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia (Francisella tularensis). It is one of the best-known hard ticks. Diseases are spread when it sucks blood from the host.
Signs of glanders include the formation of nodular lesions in the lungs and ulceration of the mucous membranes in the upper respiratory tract.The acute form results in coughing, fever, and the release of an infectious nasal discharge, followed by septicaemia and death within days.
A major rule-out for C. felis is Mycoplasma haemofelis (formerly known as Haemobartonella felis); clinical signs can be similar to cytauxzoonosis and the organism may be confused on the peripheral smear. [4] Because it causes similar signs in outdoor cats during the spring and summer, tularemia is another disease the veterinarian may want to ...