Tularemia (Rabbit Fever)

Neutrophile Alkaline Phosphatase Changes in Tularemia , Sandfly Fever , Q Fever

With the technical assistance of Sophie Shepel and Ray F. Long T DECADES AGO, Wachstein’ called attention to an increase in alkaline phosphatase (AP) activity of human neutrophilic leukocytes during bacterial infections. Enzyme activity within individual cells as well as the number of cells with detectable enzyme were markedly increased, an observation confirmed by others.27 Infection-induced r...

Rabbit Tularemia and Hepatic Coccidiosis in Wild Rabbit

To the Editor: Tularemia is a highly pathogenic zoonosis caused by the gram-negative intracellular bacterium Francisella tularensis. F. tularensis causes serious septicemia in animals, especially wild rodents and lagomorphs (rabbits and hares), and potentially fatal, multisystemic disease in humans. The human mortality rate can reach 30% in untreated persons (1). F. tularensis is listed as a ca...

Rabbit hunter uveitis: case report of tularemia uveitis

BACKGROUND Literature reports on ophthalmological manifestations related to tularemia, a zoonose caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis, largely refer to Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome, which consists of the association of conjunctivitis with preauricular lymphadenitis. In this paper, we report a case of intraocular inflammation during tularemia infection. CASE PRESENTATION A 52-y...

Neutrophile alkaline phosphatase changes in tularemia, sandfly fever, Q fever and noninfectious fevers.

Tularemia.

Francisella tularensis is the etiological agent of tularemia, a serious and occasionally fatal disease of humans and animals. In humans, ulceroglandular tularemia is the most common form of the disease and is usually a consequence of a bite from an arthropod vector which has previously fed on an infected animal. The pneumonic form of the disease occurs rarely but is the likely form of the disea...