May 15, 2024 · Tularemia is a potentially serious illness caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. People can become infected in several different ways, including tick and deer fly bites, and contact …

Francisella tularensis is a pathogenic species of Gram-negative coccobacillus, an aerobic bacterium. [1] It is nonspore-forming, nonmotile, [2] and the causative agent of tularemia, the pneumonic form of …

May 15, 2024 · Francisella tularensis, the bacterium that causes tularemia, is highly infectious and can enter the human body through the skin, eyes, mouth, or lungs. Symptoms of infection vary …

Apr 14, 2026 · Tularemia generally causes flu-like symptoms and swollen lymph nodes, but each form may have other symptoms. Tularemia is an infection you get from the bacterium Francisella …

Oct 13, 2011 · Naturally occurring tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis, which is a hardy organism capable of surviving for weeks at low temperatures in water, …

Dec 29, 2025 · Francisella tularensis causes life-threatening infections in animals (rabbits, hares, and rodents) and people (zoonotic disease). It is also known as ‘Rabbit Fever’ or ‘Deer Fly fever.’

Nov 3, 2025 · The clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tularemia will be reviewed here. The microbiology, pathogenesis, and epidemiology of infection due to F. tularensis …

Tularemia, also known as rabbit fever, is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. [4] Symptoms may include fever, skin ulcers, and enlarged lymph nodes. [3]

Tularemia is a febrile disease caused by the gram-negative bacterium Francisella tularensis; it may resemble typhoid fever. Symptoms are a primary local ulcerative lesion, regional lymphadenopathy, …

Oct 26, 2020 · Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. The predominant sources, routes of infection, and clinical manifestations of human infections greatly vary …