Diseases

Tularemia

A plague-like disease of rodents, transmissible to man. It is caused by FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS and is characterized by fever, chills, headache, backache, and weakness.

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A plague-like disease of rodents, transmissible to man. It is caused by FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS and is characterized by fever, chills, headache, backache, and weakness.

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  • Francisella tularensis Infection
  • Francisella tularensis Infections
  • Infection, Francisella tularensis
  • Tularemias

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Tularemia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014406. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014406
  2. Tularemia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tularemia
  3. Tularemia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q153861