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Tularemia
Disease definition
A rare bacterial infectious disease caused by Francisella tularensis and characterized by six major clinical presentations: ulceroglandular, glandular, oropharyngeal, oculoglandular, pneumonic, or typhoidal, depending on the route of infection. Early flu-like symptoms are common to all forms and are accompanied/followed by either a skin inoculation ulcer with localized lymphadenopathy; isolated lymphadenopathy; chronic pharyngitis with cervical lymphadenopathy; conjunctivitis with localized lymphadenopathy; lung involvement; severe systemic disease with neurological symptoms.
ORPHA:3392
Classification level: DisorderA summary on this disease is available in Deutsch (2020) Español (2020) Français (2020) Nederlands (2020)
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