TULAREMIA: DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND POSTEXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS
Diagnosis The clinical presentation and laboratory features of tularemia are generally nonspecific. Radiographic findings include lobar consolidations, miliary infiltrates, hilar or mediastinal lymphadenopathy, or pleural effusions, but these, too, are nonspecific. As with the other diseases caused by the agents of bioterrorism, clinical suspicion is necessary for diagnosis. Physicians who suspect this disease should alert [...]
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