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How do people get tularemia?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Humans can acquire the bacterium directly from contact with the blood or body fluids of infected animals, from the bite of a tick or fly which has previously fed on the blood of an infected animal, or from contaminated food or water.

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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


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.


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 people get Oropharyngeal tularemia?

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Which of the bacterial diseases produces ulcers on the skin?

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What is an Infectious disease starting with Tu?

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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.


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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.