bakteri Francisella tularensis tekitatud jäneste ja näriliste haigus, mis võib levida ka inimesele haavade, limaskestade või mitmesuguste putukate, eriti põdrakärbeste (Chrysops) hammustuste kaudu, sümptomiteks haavand putukahammustuse kohal, lümfadeniit ja palavik
katkutaoline näriliste nakkushaigus, millesse võib verd imevate putukate (sääsk, puuk jt) vahendusel nakatuda ka inimene
an infectious disease especially of wild rabbits, rodents, some domestic animals, and humans that is caused by a bacterium (Francisella tularensis), is transmitted especially by the bites of insects, and in humans is marked by symptoms (as fever) of toxemia
an acute infectious bacterial disease of rodents, transmitted to humans by infected ticks or flies or by handling contaminated flesh
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It is characterized by fever, chills, and inflammation of the lymph glands.
Tularemia can be spread to humans by the bite of an infected animal, by contact with blood or fine dust from the animal’s body during skinning or similar operations, by the ingestion of infected animal products that have not been properly cooked, or by the bite of an insect, most commonly a deerfly, Chrysops discalis (the human disease is also called deerfly fever).
Tularemia also occurs in a typhoidal form marked by an exhausting, or feverish, illness and a pneumonic form caused by inhalation of dust contaminated by F. tularensis. Mortality is sometimes as high as 5 to 7 percent in the typhoidal and pneumonic forms.
