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eMedicine - Tick-Borne Diseases, Tularemia : Article by Jonathan A Edlow, MD

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic591.htm

Tick-Borne Diseases, Tularemia - First described in Japan in 1837, tularemia is an infectious disease caused by the gram-negative pleomorphic bacterium, Francisella tularensis. The disease name relates to the description in 1911 of a plaguelike illness in ground squirrels in Tulare County, California, and the subsequent work performed by Dr Edward Francis. In 1928, Francis described his personal experience with more than 800 cases.F tularensis is found worldwide in more than 100 species of wild animals, birds, and insects. It ...

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NEJM -- Tularemia Revisited

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/345/22/1637

Editorial from The New England Journal of Medicine -- Tularemia Revisited

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