Tularemia Synonyms

to͝olə-rēmē-ə, tyo͝o-
A highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. tularaemia
  2. rabbit-fever
  3. deer-fly-fever
  4. yatobyo

Tularemia Sentence Examples

  • The Effects of Anthrax In 1941 the Russians developed tularemia as a biological weapon.

  • A number of rodents serve as reservoirs for human diseases, such as bubonic plague, tularemia, scrub typhus, and others.

  • The workers had handled a live strain of the tularemia bacterium instead of the non-infectious one typically used.

  • Diseases or disorders that involve lymph nodes in specific areas of the body include rabbit fever (tularemia), cat-scratch disease, lymphogranuloma venereum, chancroid, genital herpes, infected acne, dental abscesses, and bubonic plague.

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