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Tularemia: The Resurgence of a Diagnostic Challenge and Clinical Dilemma in the United States
Tularemia is a rare, life-threatening zoonotic infection with low, naturally occurring transmission rates in the United States. Classified as a Category A bioterrorism agent, this disease is highly infectious and has the potential to be fatal if left untreated. Making the diagnosis is difficult due...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9417589/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36046284 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27363 |
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author | Kelson, Michael Burnett, Justin Girgis, Sameh Bakr, Mohamed |
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description | Tularemia is a rare, life-threatening zoonotic infection with low, naturally occurring transmission rates in the United States. Classified as a Category A bioterrorism agent, this disease is highly infectious and has the potential to be fatal if left untreated. Making the diagnosis is difficult due to the non-specific symptomatology patients present with. Considering the increase in the prevalence of this diagnosis over the past two decades, this condition has the potential to become a public health crisis. This case report details a pediatric patient who was found to have fever, ulceration, and lymphadenopathy on hospital admission. After a prolonged and protracted course of illness, tularemia was diagnosed with laboratory testing. The purpose of this case report is to increase awareness of tularemia as a potential cause of non-specific flu-like symptoms, especially during the summer months. Moreover, our goal is to propose suggestions for healthcare professionals who encounter patients with clinical suspicion of tularemia. |
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spelling | pubmed-94175892022-08-30 Tularemia: The Resurgence of a Diagnostic Challenge and Clinical Dilemma in the United States Kelson, Michael Burnett, Justin Girgis, Sameh Bakr, Mohamed Cureus Infectious Disease Tularemia is a rare, life-threatening zoonotic infection with low, naturally occurring transmission rates in the United States. Classified as a Category A bioterrorism agent, this disease is highly infectious and has the potential to be fatal if left untreated. Making the diagnosis is difficult due to the non-specific symptomatology patients present with. Considering the increase in the prevalence of this diagnosis over the past two decades, this condition has the potential to become a public health crisis. This case report details a pediatric patient who was found to have fever, ulceration, and lymphadenopathy on hospital admission. After a prolonged and protracted course of illness, tularemia was diagnosed with laboratory testing. The purpose of this case report is to increase awareness of tularemia as a potential cause of non-specific flu-like symptoms, especially during the summer months. Moreover, our goal is to propose suggestions for healthcare professionals who encounter patients with clinical suspicion of tularemia. Cureus 2022-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9417589/ /pubmed/36046284 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27363 Text en Copyright © 2022, Kelson et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Infectious Disease Kelson, Michael Burnett, Justin Girgis, Sameh Bakr, Mohamed Tularemia: The Resurgence of a Diagnostic Challenge and Clinical Dilemma in the United States |
title | Tularemia: The Resurgence of a Diagnostic Challenge and Clinical Dilemma in the United States |
title_full | Tularemia: The Resurgence of a Diagnostic Challenge and Clinical Dilemma in the United States |
title_fullStr | Tularemia: The Resurgence of a Diagnostic Challenge and Clinical Dilemma in the United States |
title_full_unstemmed | Tularemia: The Resurgence of a Diagnostic Challenge and Clinical Dilemma in the United States |
title_short | Tularemia: The Resurgence of a Diagnostic Challenge and Clinical Dilemma in the United States |
title_sort | tularemia: the resurgence of a diagnostic challenge and clinical dilemma in the united states |
topic | Infectious Disease |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9417589/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36046284 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27363 |
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