A family outbreak of tularemia.
A family cluster of tularemia is described. In a family of three members different clinical type of the disease occurred after having been exposed to a sick wild hare. From the hare kidney Francisella tularensis type 1 was isolated. Pneumonic, typhoid-like tularemia occurred in the father who inhaled hare skin hairs and an ulceroglandular form in the mother and in the child who had direct contact with the animal.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D005604:Francisella tularensis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007793:Lagomorpha / Q000382:microbiology*; D008297:Male; D008322:Mammals / Q000382:microbiology*; D014406:Tularemia / Q000235:genetics / Q000635:transmission*