Nuray Muluk, Mustafa Ertek, Canan Agalar, Bekir Celebi, Sedat Kaygusuz, Osman-Arikan , Kursat Azkur, Hulya Simsek, Serkal Gazyagci, Kenan Ecemis, Muge Taner, Serdar Gozutok, Kubilay Toyran, Emine Meydaneri, Cigdem Ediz, Ozlem Erol, Ozden Ciftci Cirpar,
Epidemia of Tularemia in Central Anatolia,
Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances,
Volume 9,Issue 12,
2010,
Pages 1702-1706,
ISSN 1680-5593,
javaa.2010.1702.1706,
(https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2010.1702.1706)
Abstract: Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by Francisella tularensis which can be transmitted to humans by tick bites contaminated water handling infected materials and inhalation. The different clinical types are ulceroglandular, glandular, oropharyngeal, oculoglandular, typhoidal and pneumonic tularemia. Streptomycin and tetracycline are commonly used to treat this infection. In this study approched other patients after the suspected tularemia patient attended to Kirikkale University, Faculty of Medicine with the servical mass complaint at January 2010. To find the reservoir for tularemia, laboratory research was carried on the mice suspected to be infected with Francisella tularensis in the town of infection.
Keywords: Francisella tularensis;mice;zoonoses;Tularemia;glandular;Turkey