Tularemia: current diagnosis and treatment options

MJ Hepburn, AJH Simpson - Expert review of anti-infective therapy, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Tularemia is an infection caused by Francisella tularensis with a worldwide distribution and
diverse clinical manifestations. Limitations in both culture and serologic testing have led to …

Francisella tularensis, Tularemia and Serological Diagnosis

M Maurin - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis. The
predominant sources, routes of infection, and clinical manifestations of human infections …

Tularemia: emergence/re-emergence

JM Petersen, ME Schriefer - 2005 - digitalcommons.unl.edu
Francisella tularensis is a gram-negative coccobacillus and the etiologic agent of the
zoonotic disease tularemia. First described in 1911 in Tulare County, California, it has since …

Performance of seven serological assays for diagnosing tularemia

V Chaignat, M Djordjevic-Spasic, A Ruettger… - BMC infectious …, 2014 - Springer
Background Tularemia is a rare zoonotic disease caused by the Gram-negative bacterium
Francisella tularensis. Serology is frequently the preferred diagnostic approach, because the …

New approaches to diagnosis and therapy of tularemia

A Tärnvik, MC Chu - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Francisella tularensis is a potent pathogen and a cause of severe human disease. The
outcome of tularemia will depend on rapid insertion of appropriate antibiotics. Until recently …

Tularemia: history, epidemiology, pathogen physiology, and clinical manifestations

A Sjöstedt - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Francisella tularensis has been recognized as a human pathogen for almost 100 years and
is the etiological agent of the zoonotic disease tularemia. Soon after its discovery, it became …

Evaluation of a commercial immunochromatographic assay for the serologic diagnosis of tularemia

S Kılıç, B Çelebi, M Yeşilyurt - Diagnostic microbiology and infectious …, 2012 - Elsevier
Tularemia is an infection caused by Francisella tularensis with a worldwide distribution in
the northern hemisphere and diverse clinical manifestations. Serology plays an important …

Evaluation of an Immunochromatographic Test for Rapid and Reliable Serodiagnosis of Human Tularemia and Detection of Francisella tularensis-Specific Antibodies …

W Splettstoesser, V Guglielmo-Viret… - Journal of clinical …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
Tularemia is a highly contagious infectious zoonosis caused by the bacterial agent
Francisella tularensis. Serology is still considered to be a cornerstone in tularemia diagnosis …

Systematic review: clinical features, antimicrobial treatment, and outcomes of human tularemia, 1993–2023

CA Nelson, J Winberg, TD Bostic… - Clinical Infectious …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia, is endemic throughout
the Northern Hemisphere and requires as few as 10 organisms to cause disease, making …

Human tularemia in France, 2006–2010

M Maurin, I Pelloux, JP Brion… - Clinical Infectious …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Background. Tularemia is an endemic but rare disease in France. We describe the
epidemiologic, clinical, diagnostic, treatment, and prognostic aspects of the disease in 101 …