TULAREMIA

toolərēˈmēə or rabbit fever, acute, infectious disease caused by Francisella tularensis (Pasteurella tularensis). The greatest incidence is among people who handle infected wild rabbits. Tularemia may also be transmitted by other infected animals, ticks, or contaminated food or water. Within 10 days of contact the disease begins suddenly with high fever and severe constitutional symptoms. An ulcerating lesion (or several lesions) develops at the site of infection, such as the arm, eye, or mouth. The regional lymph nodes enlarge, suppurate, and drain. The infection may be complicated by pneumonia, meningitis, or peritonitis, and the mortality rate is about 6%. Treatment is with antibiotics. Continuous wet saline dressings can be beneficial for primary skin lesion.

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books on: Tularemia  - 128 results

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Agents of Bioterrorism: Pathogens and Their Weaponization
Book by Geoffrey Zubay; Columbia University Press, 2005
Subjects: Biological Weapons, Pathogenic Microorganisms
...most touted biological weapon threats, tularemia compensates via its incredibly high infectivity...cause inhalational anthrax, whereas tularemia can be caused with fewer than 10 organisms...important ramifications for the use of tularemia as a weapon. WEAPONIZATION The question...
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Biosecurity in the Global Age: Biological Weapons, Public Health, and the Rule of Law
Book by David P. Fidler, Lawrence O. Gostin; Stanford Law and Politics, 2008
Subjects: Biological Warfare--Prevention, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism--Prevention, Public Health Laws
...bacteria proved challenging during the Cold War. Tularemia Tularemia is a disease caused by the Francisella tularensis...contaminated food or water, or inhaling the bacteria. Tularemia is not contagious and can be effectively treated with...
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Everything You Need to Know about Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Disorders
Book by Karen Vanderhoof-Forschner; Wiley, 2003
Subjects: Lyme Disease--Popular Works, Tick-Borne Diseases--Popular Works
...if the tick is re- moved. TU LAREMIA Tularemia, also called rabbit fever or deerfly...prolonged periods inside those cells. Tularemia was first reported in 1837 in Japan...Today, approximately 150 cases of tularemia are voluntarily reported annu- ally...
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Self-Experimenters: Sources for Study
Book by Arsen P. Fiks, Paul A. Buelow; Praeger, 2003
Subjects: Self-Experimentation In Medicine--Directories, Self-Experimentation In Medicine--History--Sources
...1941, Russia. Immunity to repeated tularemia infection. Procedure: In a laboratory...experimenters eye became infected with tularemia. Result: One day later he got conjuctivitis...ended in three days, but he did not have tularemia again. Conclusion/Contribution: Immunity...
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Chemical and Biological Warfare
Book by Karen Judson; Benchmark Books, 2004
Subjects: Biological Warfare, Chemical Warfare
Tularemia Disease-Causing Organism: titl,7i...are two types of naturally occurring tularemia. One is more common in the United States...countries, particularly Scandinavia. The tularemia organism does not form spores, but can...
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journal articles on: Tularemia  - 34 results

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Tularemia Could Be Bioweapons Threat
Journal article; Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 64, 2001
Subjects: Biological warfare--Analysis, Communicable diseases--Analysis, Johns Hopkins University--Reports, Public health--Safety and security measures, Tularemia--Analysis, Working Group on Civilian Biodefense--Reports, World Health Organization--Reports
Tularemia Could Be Bioweapons Threat. The highly infectious disease tularemia--also known as rabbit fever--could pose a...illnesses and 19,000 deaths if a mass-casualty tularemia biological weapon were used against a modern city...
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Tularemia
Journal article; Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 65, 2003
Subjects: Bacterial infections--Physiological aspects, Tularemia--Physiological aspects
Tularemia. Tularemia is a plaguelike disease in humans. It is caused by the Gram-negative...the county in which it was discovered, Tulare County, California. Tularemia occurs throughout Europe and North America as well as in various other...
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Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Diseases: A Review
Journal article by George H. Reed; Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 55, 1993
Subjects: Babesiosis--Care and treatment, Ehrlichiosis--Care and treatment, Lyme disease--Care and treatment, Q fever--Care and treatment, Relapsing fever--Care and treatment, Rocky Mountain spotted fever--Care and treatment, Tick-borne diseases--Evaluation, Ticks--Control, Tularemia--Care and treatment
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Assessing Patients during a Mass Casualty: The Need for Clinical Laboratory Services
Journal article by Isaac D. Montoya; The Forensic Examiner, Vol. 17, 2008
Subjects: Biological weapons--Varieties, Bioterrorism--Management, Bioterrorism--Social aspects, Disaster planning--Methods, Emergency management--Methods, Emergency preparedness
...aid. Bioterrorism agents such as anthrax, plague, tularemia, brucellosis, and glanders all requite intensive...World Health Organization (Prevention, 2006). TULAREMIA Tularemia is a potentially serious illness that occurs naturally...
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Responding to Bioterrorism: Basics for Physicians and Allied Health-Care Providers
Journal article by Howard J. Levinson; The Forensic Examiner, Vol. 16, 2007
Subjects: Alternative medicine--Laws, regulations and rules, Antigens--Laws, regulations and rules, Biological weapons--Laws, regulations and rules, Bioterrorism--Laws, regulations and rules, Ciprofloxacin--Complications and side effects, Ciprofloxacin--Laws, regulations and rules, Continuing medical education--Laws, regulations and rules, Cross infection--Complications and side effects, Cross infection--Laws, regulations and rules, Disaster victims--Behavior, Disaster victims--Laws, regulations and rules, Diseases--Complications and side effects, Diseases--Laws, regulations and rules, Emergency management--Laws, regulations and rules, Emergency preparedness--Laws, regulations and rules, Epidemics--Complications and side effects, Epidemics--Laws, regulations and rules, Medical research--Laws, regulations and rules, Medical societies--Laws, regulations and rules, Medicine, Experimental--Laws, regulations and rules, Nosocomial infections--Complications and side effects, Nosocomial infections--Laws, regulations and rules, Smallpox vaccine--Complications and side effects, Smallpox vaccine--Laws, regulations and rules, Smallpox vaccines--Complications and side effects, Smallpox vaccines--Laws, regulations and rules, Smallpox--Complications and side effects, Smallpox--Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention--Laws, regulations and rules, Vaccination--Laws, regulations and rules
...cleaning. Currently, no effective vaccine exists. Tularemia Tularemia is a bacterial zoonosis caused by a gram-negative coccobacillus called Francisella tularensis. Tularemia is one of the most infectious pathogenic bacteria...
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magazine articles on: Tularemia  - 53 results

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Jbaids
Magazine article by Scott R. Gourley; Army, Vol. 60, May 2010
Subjects: Armed forces, Design, Laboratories, Military recruitment, Technological change, Tularemia
...FDA-cleared diagnostic kits for anthrax, plague and tularemia, respectively. Subsequent to the development of those...other cleared JBAIDS diagnostic kits (anthrax, plague, tularemia) and other new, emerging diseases."
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Chemical and Biological Agents of War: Concept, Cause, Care
Magazine article by Domenic A. Sammarco; Drug Topics, Vol. 146, January 21, 2002
Subjects: Biological & chemical weapons, Health care, Pharmaceutical industry, Pharmacists, United States
...and 100% for the pneumonic and septicemic forms. Tularemia. Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by infection with the...cutaneous and aerosol routes. Naturally occurring tularemia shows up most commonly in its ulceroglandular form...
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After Anthrax
Magazine article by Wendy Orent; The American Prospect, Vol. 11, May 8, 2000
Subjects: Biological warfare--Russia, International relations--United States, Military policy--Russia, Public health--Russia, Russia--Science and technology policy
...diseases such as plague, anthrax, or tularemia. "This is a win-win situation...used to engineer antibiotic-resistant tularemia, or "rabbit fever," a frequently...own strain of antibiotic-resistant tularemia. His commercial flyer states that his...
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Bioterror Brain Drain: Infectious-Disease Specialists Are Following the Big Bucks to Washington's New Multibillion-Dollar Program on Bioterrorism Research-But at What Human Cost?
Magazine article by Merrill Goozner; The American Prospect, Vol. 14, October 2003
Subjects: Bioterrorism--Research, Brain drain--Social aspects, Communicable diseases--Research, Pharmaceutical research
...science research on TB in favor of studying tularemia, the bacterium spread by ticks and rodents that causes rabbit fever? Because tularemia is on the governments A-list of potential...have shifted their "whole approach to tularemia and anthrax because of the availability...
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Bioweapons from Russia: Stemming the Flow
Magazine article by Jonathan B. Tucker; Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 15, Spring 1999
Subjects: Biological weapons--Safety and security measures, Cold War--Military aspects
...of known pathogens such as plague and tularemia to make them resistant to Western antibiotics...developed an antibiotic-resistant strain of tularemia at the military microbiological facility...get a Ph.D. degree for his work on tularemia, he stole a sample of the Sverdlovsk...
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newspaper articles on: Tularemia  - 18 results

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Lethal Pathogens Handy in Nations Harboring Terrorists
Newspaper article by August Gribbin; The Washington Times, October 21, 2001
...Storm and may still maintain a supply. * Tularemia: A plague-like infectious disease, tularemia produces pneumonia, chills, vomiting...short, one can but feel that the status of tularemia, both as a disease in nature and of man...
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Toxins Terrorists May Use
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 17, 2003
...not have developed full-blown symptoms. Not all agents can be detected this way, though. * Tularemia: A potentially deadly bacteria, tularemia is easily transmitted and disseminated via aerosol delivery. The bacteria can survive for weeks...
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Warner Woos Biotech Firms
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 15, 2005
Subjects: Biotechnology, Biotechnology industries, Biotechnology industry, George Mason University
...National Institutes of Health, will be used primarily to research potential cures for biological weapons such as anthrax and tularemia. Charles Bailey, executive director of the universitys National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases, called the...
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Time to Take Biodefense Seriously; Most Don't Understand How Grim an Attack Could Be
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), October 8, 2010
Subjects: Biological weapons--Military aspects, Bioterrorism--Military aspects, National security--Military aspects
...apparently proved that aerosolized bioweapons had nuclear lethal equivalence, even with noncontagious bacterial agents such as tularemia. In a revelatory 1966 article about secret biological warfare laboratories in the United States, investigative reporter...
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Biological Terrorism: A Threat Overlooked
Newspaper article by Tom Carter; The Washington Times, January 16, 2000
...from a perfume bottle in a crowded subway has the potential to bring a city to its knees. A couple of pounds of powdered tularemia or plague delivered from a low flying crop duster could be equally catastrophic. A deliberate attack with the Marburg or...
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encyclopedia articles on: Tularemia  - 9 results

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Tularemia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TULAREMIA tool re me or rabbit fever, acute, infectious disease caused by Francisella...greatest incidence is among people who handle infected wild rabbits. Tularemia may also be transmitted by other infected animals, ticks, or contaminated...
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Horsefly
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...bodies and brilliantly colored eyes, are members of the genus Chrysops. The deerflies, which carry the diseases anthrax and tularemia , and in Africa, a filarial worm infestation, belong to this group. Horseflies are most abundant in hot weather. The eggs...
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Rat
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of food. They invade food supplies and cause widespread destruction; they also spread human diseases such as typhus and tularemia. Despite human efforts to exterminate rats, the house rat population is probably equal to the human population. Besides...
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Mite
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...outer plates made of chitin , remain attached to the host for long periods. Ticks transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever , tularemia , Lyme disease , equine encephalitis , several forms of ehrlichiosis , and other diseases. Each species needs three different...
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Rabbit
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...reingest; the waste products of the redigested food are excreted as dry pellets. Wild rabbits are frequently infected with tularemia , which is dangerous to humans. The European Common Rabbit The European common rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, is native...
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