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17 lip 2023 · Tularemia is an acute febrile zoonotic illness caused by the highly infectious gram-negative organism Francisella tularensis. It is important to maintain a high degree of clinical suspicion for tularemia infections as symptoms can vary depending on the route of infection.
Tularaemia is a zoonotic disease caused by Francisella tularensis, a Gram-negative, facultative intracellular bacterium.
Tularemia is a rare, life-threatening zoonotic infection with low, naturally occurring transmission rates in the United States. Classified as a Category A bioterrorism agent, this disease is highly infectious and has the potential to be fatal if left untreated.
31 sty 2024 · Tularemia is an uncommon but life-threatening illness caused by Francisella tularensis . An intracellular gram-negative bacterium with a very low infectious inoculum, F. tularensis is classified as a Tier 1 Select Agent due to its potential for use as a bioweapon [1, 5, 6].
13 paź 2011 · Naturally occurring tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis, which is a hardy organism capable of surviving for weeks at low temperatures in water, moist soil, hay, straw, or decaying animal carcasses.
Tularemia is a bacterial disease of humans, wild, and domestic animals. Francisella tularensis, which is a Gram-negative coccobacillus-shaped bacterium, is the causative agent of tularemia.
Introduction. Tularemia, also known as “Rabbit fever, water-rat trappers’ disease, wild hare disease (yato-byo), and Ohara’s disease” (Stidham et al. 2018) is a rare but highly contagious zoonotic disease caused by Gram-negative, intracellular coccobacillus bacterium named Francisella tularensis.
