title: Clinical, epidemiological and therapeutical experience with human tularaemia: the role of hamster hunters.
abstract: Fifty patients suffering from tularaemia were treated in our department. The most frequent occupation of the tularaemia patients was hamster hunter. The most important source of the tularaemic infection (90%) was the hamster (Cricetus cricetus). We observed the cutano-glandular form in 90% of the patients and internal tularaemia in 10%. The antibiotics used (streptomycin i. m., oxytetracycline and doxycycline per os) were effective.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D006224:Cricetinae / Q000382:microbiology*; D004199:Disease Vectors; D005260:Female; D005604:Francisella tularensis / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D008297:Male; D014406:Tularemia / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial