An Uncommon Presentation of Pulmonary Tularemia: A Case Report and Literature Review

Francisella tularensis is a re-emerging organism causing more significant outbreaks of tularemia and fear of bioterrorism. It can be challenging to recognize tularemia due to its variable presentation, especially in low-incidence areas. Physicians must be mindful of this life-threatening infectious...

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Autores principales: Roth, Kelly, Chelikam, Nikhila, Rathore, Himanshu, Chittivelu, Subramanyam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9667831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36407204
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30379
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author Roth, Kelly
Chelikam, Nikhila
Rathore, Himanshu
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description Francisella tularensis is a re-emerging organism causing more significant outbreaks of tularemia and fear of bioterrorism. It can be challenging to recognize tularemia due to its variable presentation, especially in low-incidence areas. Physicians must be mindful of this life-threatening infectious disease and consider it a differential diagnosis in patients with fever of unknown origin. We encountered a case of pulmonary tularemia with a unique presentation of severe headache and fever.
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spelling pubmed-96678312022-11-17 An Uncommon Presentation of Pulmonary Tularemia: A Case Report and Literature Review Roth, Kelly Chelikam, Nikhila Rathore, Himanshu Chittivelu, Subramanyam Cureus Infectious Disease Francisella tularensis is a re-emerging organism causing more significant outbreaks of tularemia and fear of bioterrorism. It can be challenging to recognize tularemia due to its variable presentation, especially in low-incidence areas. Physicians must be mindful of this life-threatening infectious disease and consider it a differential diagnosis in patients with fever of unknown origin. We encountered a case of pulmonary tularemia with a unique presentation of severe headache and fever. Cureus 2022-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9667831/ /pubmed/36407204 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30379 Text en Copyright © 2022, Roth 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.
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