RT Book, Section
A1 Snowden, Jessica
A1 Skar, Gwenn
A1 Stovall, Stephanie H.
A2 Kline, Mark W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182936919
T1 Tularemia
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259588594
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182936919
RD 2024/04/25
AB Tularemia  is  a  highly  infectious  zoonotic  disease  caused  by  several  subspecies  of  the  gram-negative  bacterium  Francisella  tularensis  (Table  286-1).  Francisella  tularensis  is  a  small,  aerobic,  nonmotile  gram-negative  bacterium  first  identified  in  1911  by  Dr.  Edward  Francis,  after  an  outbreak  of  plague-like  disease  in  rodents  in  Tulare  County,  California.  Infection  has  been  reported  in  humans  since  1914.  In  the  United  States,  nearly  all  human  cases  of  tularemia  are  caused  by  the  F  tularensis  subspecies  tularensis  (type  A,  66%)  or  F  tularensis  subspecies  holarctica  (type  B,  34%).