Long-Lasting Fever and Lymphadenitis: Think about F. tularensis

We report the case of glandular tularemia that developed in a man supposedly infected by a tick bite in Western Switzerland. Francisella tularensis (F. tularensis) was identified. In Europe tularemia most commonly manifests itself as ulcero-glandular or glandular disease; the diagnosis of tularemia...

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Autores principales: Longo, Maria Vittoria, Jaton, Katia, Pilo, Paola, Chabanel, David, Erard, Véronique
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4646983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26612988
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/191406
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author Longo, Maria Vittoria
Jaton, Katia
Pilo, Paola
Chabanel, David
Erard, Véronique
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description We report the case of glandular tularemia that developed in a man supposedly infected by a tick bite in Western Switzerland. Francisella tularensis (F. tularensis) was identified. In Europe tularemia most commonly manifests itself as ulcero-glandular or glandular disease; the diagnosis of tularemia may be delayed in glandular form where skin or mucous lesion is absent, particularly in areas which are assumed to have a low incidence of the disease.
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spelling pubmed-46469832015-11-26 Long-Lasting Fever and Lymphadenitis: Think about F. tularensis Longo, Maria Vittoria Jaton, Katia Pilo, Paola Chabanel, David Erard, Véronique Case Rep Med Case Report We report the case of glandular tularemia that developed in a man supposedly infected by a tick bite in Western Switzerland. Francisella tularensis (F. tularensis) was identified. In Europe tularemia most commonly manifests itself as ulcero-glandular or glandular disease; the diagnosis of tularemia may be delayed in glandular form where skin or mucous lesion is absent, particularly in areas which are assumed to have a low incidence of the disease. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4646983/ /pubmed/26612988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/191406 Text en Copyright © 2015 Maria Vittoria Longo et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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