Tularemia

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 222, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 725-730

  Feldman, Katherine Anne ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; DOXYCYCLINE; ENROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL CARE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; CAT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEVER; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUMAN; LAGOMORPH; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; REVIEW; RODENT; TICK BITE; TULAREMIA; WILD SPECIES; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TULAREMIA; UNITED STATES; ZOONOSES;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; LAGOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0037443906     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2003.222.725     Document Type: Review

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