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Case Reports
. 2010 Jun;51(6):784-7.
doi: 10.1007/s00108-009-2547-z.

[A 23-year-old patient with sore throat and cervical lymph node enlargement: a rare presentation of tularemia]

[Article in German]
E Capka  1 , M Roch, M Ritter, U Stölzel
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Case Reports

[A 23-year-old patient with sore throat and cervical lymph node enlargement: a rare presentation of tularemia]

[Article in German]
E Capka et al. Internist (Berl). 2010 Jun.

Abstract

We report a case of oropharyngeal tularemia--an uncommon manifestation of this disease. There is a low prevalence of tularemia in Germany. Therefore the diagnosis can be confirmed only by well directed laboratory diagnostics. Without correct antibiotic therapy mortality can reach 33%--depending on the subspecies of Francisella tularensis. For this reason tularemia should be included into the differential-diagnostic considerations in patients with unclear lymph node enlargement.

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