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tularæmia Path.|tjuːləˈriːmɪə|
Also (chiefly U.S.) -emia.
[f. mod.L. tular-ensis, specific epithet of the causative organism (f. the name of Tulare Co., California) + Gr. αἷµα blood + -ia1.]
An acute infectious febrile disease of man and domestic animals caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis, endemic among wild rodents in N. America and elsewhere, and transmitted to man by biting insects and by other means, producing very variable symptoms.
1921E. Francis in Public Health Rep. (U.S.) 29 July 1731 The names thus far used for this disease are strictly vernacular and do not lend themselves to international usage as easily as a name in Latin form. Accordingly, the name tularæmia is proposed as a technical international name. 1925, etc. [see rabbit fever s.v. rabbit n.1 4]. 1949A. Huxley Ape & Essence 30 On the pressure-tanks of one army are painted the words super tularemia; on those of their opponents, improved glanders. 1961R. D. Baker Essent. Path. ix. 183 Tularemia is acquired, usually, from the handling of infected rabbits.
Add: Hence tulaˈræmic a.
1954S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 12) x. 120 The sulphonamide drugs..are peculiarly effective against hæmolytic streptococci, gonococci, [etc.]... Tuberculous, leprous, syphilitic, brucellar or tularemic infections show no response. 1979Infection VII. 61/1 The most important source of the tularaemic infection (90{pcnt}) was the hamster. |