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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. [3]
Tularemia, a disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis and commonly transmitted by a tick, deerfly and/or handling the body of a sick or dead infected animal.
Francisella tularensis. (McCoy and Chapin 1912) Dorofe'ev 1947. Francisella tularensis is a pathogenic species of Gram-negative coccobacillus, an aerobic bacterium. [1] It is nonspore-forming, nonmotile, [2] and the causative agent of tularemia, the pneumonic form of which is often lethal without treatment.
Dysentery (UK: / ˈdɪsəntəri / DISS-ən-tər-ee, [7] US: / ˈdɪsəntɛri / DISS-ən-terr-ee), [8] historically known as the bloody flux, [9] is a type of gastroenteritis that results in bloody diarrhea. [1][10] Other symptoms may include fever, abdominal pain, and a feeling of incomplete defecation. [2][6][11] Complications may include dehydration. [3] The cause of dysentery is usually the ...
Bubonic plague. Bubonic plague is one of three types of plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. [1] One to seven days after exposure to the bacteria, flu-like symptoms develop. [1] These symptoms include fever, headaches, and vomiting, [1] as well as swollen and painful lymph nodes occurring in the area closest to where the bacteria ...
Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. [2] Symptoms include fever, weakness and headache. [1] Usually this begins one to seven days after exposure. [2] There are three forms of plague, each affecting a different part of the body and causing associated symptoms. Pneumonic plague infects the lungs, causing shortness of breath, coughing and chest pain; bubonic ...
The Terri Schiavo case was a series of court and legislative actions in the United States from 1998 to 2005, regarding the care of Theresa Marie Schiavo (née Schindler) (/ ˈ ʃ aɪ v oʊ /; December 3, 1963 – March 31, 2005), a woman in an irreversible persistent vegetative state.
Encephalitozoon cuniculi. C. Levaditi, Nicolau & R. Schoen, 1923 [1] Encephalitozoon cuniculi is a microsporidial parasite of mammals with world-wide distribution. An important cause of neurologic and renal disease in rabbits, E. cuniculi can also cause disease in immunocompromised people. Its current accepted name is Nosema cuniculi.