Work-Related Diseases
Find information on occupational work-related diseases including diseases, category and group, synonyms, severity, latency, risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatments and options.
Tularemia
Occupational Disease Tularemia
Tularemia Category Infection, Occupational
Tularemia Severity
Acute-Severe
Tularemia Synonyms
Rabbit fever; Deer-fly fever; Francisella tularensis infection
Information on Tularemia Symptoms, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Screening and Imaging
Tularemia may be confused with plague, cat-scratch disease, sporotrichosis, and bacterial skin infections. It usually presents as a skin ulcer accompanied by regional lymphadenopathy (ulceroglandular type). The lymph nodes may suppurate (glandular type). Other varieties include oropharyngeal, typhoidal, pleuropulmonary, and oculoglandular types. Rabbits are a common source of tularemia infections. [Chin, p. 532-5] "A nonspecific roseola-like rash may appear at any stage of the disease." [Merck Manual, p. 1168] Pneumonia may complicate any type of tularemia. It is common in typhoidal tularemia. Chest x-rays show infiltrates and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. About 15% of patients with pneumonia have pleural effusions. A common finding is mild elevation of liver function tests. [http://www.usamriid.army.mil/education/bluebook.html]
Tularemia Latency
1-14 days, usually 3-5
Tularemia References
http://www.bt.cdc.gov/Agent/Tularemia/Tularemia.asp