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The disease is named after Tulare County, California, where the disease was discovered in 1911. A number of other animals, such as rabbits, may also be infected.
- Blood tests, microbial culture
Jun 5, 2020 · Francisella tularensis is a pleomorphic, Gram-negative, non-motile, and non-spore-forming intracellular bacterium. It was isolated for the first time in Tulare county of California in 1911. Tularemia is also known as Pahvant Valley plague, rabbit fever, deer fly fever, and Ohara’s fever.
- Derya Karataş Yeni, Fatih Büyük, Asma Ashraf, M Salah Ud Din Shah
- 2021
Apr 19, 2024 · Tularemia was described in 1911 among ground squirrels in Tulare county, California (from which the name is derived), and was first reported in humans in the United States in 1914.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
After George McCoy accidentally discovered a new infection in 1911 while investigating bubonic plague in squirrels, he trans-mitted the disease to experimental animals and isolated the causative organism. He called it Bacterium tularense, after Tulare County, California.
Tularemia is also known as “rabbit fever” and “deerfly fever” and is caused by infection with the bacteria Francisella tularensis, found throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. There are two subspecies of the bacteria, Type A, found in North America, and Type B found in Europe.
Jul 21, 2010 · An infectious, plaguelike, zoonotic disease caused by the bacillus Francisella tularensis. The agent was named after Tulare County, California, where the agent was first isolated in 1910, and Edward Francis, an Officer of the US Public Health Service, who investigated the disease. Dr.
Dr. Francis first contracted deer fly fever from a patient he visited in Utah in the early 1900s. He kept a careful record of his 3-month illness and later discovered that a single attack confers permanent immunity. He was exposed to the bacterium for 16 years and even deliberately reinfected himself 4 times.
