Table of Contents
- Overview
- Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Images
Deerfly fever; Rabbit fever; Pahvant Valley plague; Ohara disease; Yatobyo (Japan); Lemming fever
Symptoms
- Chills
Fever Headache Joint stiffness Muscle pains - Possible
conjunctivitis - Red spot on the skin, enlarging to a sore (ulcer)
Shortness of breath Sweating Weight loss
Signs and tests
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Blood culture for tularemia - Blood test measuring the body's immune response to the infection (
serology for tularemia ) Chest x-ray - Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test of a sample from an ulcer
This disease may also affect the results of
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Tularemia Treatment
Review Date: 03/17/2009
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of
General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
School of Medicine; and Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Proessor
in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine,
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine,
Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD,
MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
