A patient of yours kills a deer infected with F. tularensis; he then skins it. His wife then prepares the deer for dinner but undercooks it. The deer is served at her office for lunch the next day. What type of infection will the husband present with? What type will his wife and her coworkers present with?

A patient of yours kills a deer infected with F. tularensis; he then skins it. His wife then prepares the deer for dinner but undercooks it. The deer is served at her office for lunch the next day. What type of infection will the husband present with? What type will his wife and her coworkers present with?


Answer: Hunter: pneumonia through inhalation of aerosolized bacteria from skinning or ulceroglandular from inoculation Wife and coworkers: typhoidal tularemia with fever and abdominal pain



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