Tularemia

BY Delilah Warren
Mrs. Guilliot
Research 6

What Is Tularemia?
• A disease of animals and humans caused by the bacterium “Francisella Tularensis”.
• Humans can get it if they come in contact with infected animals.
• This disease can attack the skin, eyes, lymph nodes, lungs, and other internal organs.
• Illness ranges from mild to life- threaten.
• And it depends on how the bacteria enters the body. Symptoms
• 4 forms of Tularemia: Ulceroglandular,
Glandular, Oculoglandular, and Pneumonic.
• Ulceroglandular- caused by inoculation of the skin. Also associated with open sores and swollen lymph nodes.
• Glandular- swollen lymph nodes are prominent.
• Oculoglandular- If the eye or throat is involved
• Pneumonic- involving the lungs.

Symptoms
• Fever, aches, fatigue, rash, sore throat, diarrhea, meningitis, bone infection, eye pain, eye redness, mother ulcers, chest pain, difficulty breathing, infected heart, and enlarging of spleen.

Causes
• This disease is highly infectious.
• If you get bitten by ticks of deer fly. • Skinning, eating, or handling infected animals.

Causes

• Contaminated food or water. • Exposure to sick or dead animals. Diagnoses

• Difficult to diagnoses.
• Blood tests and cultures can help confirm the diagnoses.
• The diagnoses should be able to confirm 3-5 days after contact with infected animal.

Diagnoses

• Polymerase Chain Reaction
(PCR) test.
• There are tests that detect parts of the bacteria in urine.
• Experiment test for