tularaemia
PRIMARY BACTERIAL INFECTIOUS DISEASE THAT HAS MATERIAL BASIS IN FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS, WHICH IS TRANSMITTED BY DOG TICK BITE (DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS), TRANSMITTED BY DEER FLIES (CHRYSOPS SP) OR TRANSMITTED BY CONTACT WITH INFECTED ANIMAL TISSUES.
Tularaemia; Deerfly fever; Pahvant Valley plague; Deer fly fever; Ohara's disease; Cutaneous involvement tularaemia; Ohara's fever
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(US tularemia)
¦ noun a severe infectious disease of animals which is transmissible to humans, caused by a bacterium (Pasteurella tularense) and characterized by ulcers, fever, and loss of weight.
Derivatives
tularaemic adjective
Origin
1920s: mod. L., from Tulare, the county in California where it was first observed.