Tularemia : Symptoms, Diagnosis & Tests (Deerfly fever, Rabbit fever, Pahvant Valley plague, Ohara disease, Yatobyo (Japan), Lemming fever)

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Tularemia

Alternate Names : Deerfly fever, Rabbit fever, Pahvant Valley plague, Ohara disease, Yatobyo (Japan), Lemming fever

Symptoms & Signs

Chills
Fever
Headache
Joint stiffness
Muscle pains
Possible conjunctivitis
Red spot on the skin, enlarging to a sore (ulcer)
Shortness of breath
Sweating
Weight loss

Diagnosis & Tests

Blood culture for tularemia
Blood test measuring the body's immune response to the infection (serology for tularemia)
Chest x-ray
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test of a sample from an ulcer

This disease may also affect the results of febrile/cold agglutinins.

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Deer ticks
Ticks
Tick imbedded in the skin
Antibodies

Review Date : 3/17/2009
Reviewed By : David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; and Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Proessor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Assistant in Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

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