A Rare Presentation in Tularemia: İnguinally Located Glandular Tularemia

Two cases of glandular tularemia from Turkey.

Tularemia is a bacterial zoonotic disease that is caused by Francisella tularensis. E tularensis is transmitted to humans by handling infected animals, ingestion of contaminated food or water, inhalation of infective aerosols, and arthropod bites. Tularemia outbreaks have been commonly reported in some areas of Europe, such as Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Spain, Kosovo, and Turkey. Tularemia has ...

Tularemia.

Francisella tularensis is the etiological agent of tularemia, a serious and occasionally fatal disease of humans and animals. In humans, ulceroglandular tularemia is the most common form of the disease and is usually a consequence of a bite from an arthropod vector which has previously fed on an infected animal. The pneumonic form of the disease occurs rarely but is the likely form of the disea...

Etymologia: tularemia

Endemic Tularemia, Sweden, 2003

Tularemia cases have been reported in Sweden since 1931, but no cyclical patterns can be identified. In 2003, the largest outbreak of tularemia since 1967 occurred, involving 698 cases. Increased reports were received from tularemia-nonendemic areas. Causal factors for an outbreak year and associated geographic distribution are not yet understood.

Immunotherapy for tularemia

Francisella tularensis is a gram-negative bacterium that causes the zoonotic disease tularemia. Francisella is highly infectious via the respiratory route (~10 CFUs) and pulmonary infections due to type A strains of F. tularensis are highly lethal in untreated patients (> 30%). In addition, no vaccines are licensed to prevent tularemia in humans. Due to the high infectivity and mortality of pul...