title: Oropharyngeal tularemia in father and son after consumption of under-cooked rabbit meat.
abstract: Tularemia has been recognized for more than 10 y in Serbia, since the first epidemic of tularemia occurred in Sokobanja region in 1999. We report 2 cases of oropharyngeal tularemia in a father and son after the consumption of under-cooked rabbit meat. Both presented with fever, unilateral tonsillopharyngitis and cervical lymphadenitis.
authors: Infectious Diseases Clinic, Clinical Centre, Nis, Serbia. marina_djordjevic@yahoo.com
authors: Marina
authors: M
authors: Djordjevic-Spasic
authors: Aleksandar
authors: A
authors: Potkonjak
authors: Velimir
authors: V
authors: Kostic
authors: Branislav
authors: B
authors: Lako
authors: Zivojin
authors: Z
authors: Spasic
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D003296:Cooking / Q000379:methods; D004032:Diet; D005192:Family Health; D005220:Fathers; D006801:Humans; D008199:Lymphadenitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008460:Meat; D008875:Middle Aged; D009679:Nuclear Family; D009960:Oropharynx / Q000473:pathology*; D010612:Pharyngitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D011817:Rabbits; D055771:Serbia; D014069:Tonsillitis / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D014406:Tularemia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology*