Suppurative cervical adenopathy and pharyngeal mass due to tularemia unresponsive to medical treatment

Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by Francisella tularensis. Tularemia presents with various clinical forms, such as ulceroglandular, glandular, oculoglandular, oropharyngeal, pneumonic, and typhoidal tularemia forms. As an intracellular pathogen, F. tularensis causes granulomatous and s...

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Main Authors: Yasemin Ozsürekci, Mehmet Ceyhan, Melda Celik, Ateş Kara, Ali Bülent Cengiz, Burçe Ozgen-Mocan
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Language:English
Published: Hacettepe University Institute of Child Health 2011-10-01
Series:The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics
Online Access:https://turkjpediatr.org/article/view/1817
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author Yasemin Ozsürekci
Mehmet Ceyhan
Melda Celik
Ateş Kara
Ali Bülent Cengiz
Burçe Ozgen-Mocan
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description Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by Francisella tularensis. Tularemia presents with various clinical forms, such as ulceroglandular, glandular, oculoglandular, oropharyngeal, pneumonic, and typhoidal tularemia forms. As an intracellular pathogen, F. tularensis causes granulomatous and suppurative lesions especially in the affected regional lymph nodes and various organs. Tularemia is seen most commonly in the Black Sea and Marmara regions of Turkey. Herein, we describe a girl with tularemia who presented with right cervical lymphadenopathy and left nasopharyngeal mass. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of tularemia with deep neck infection and also the first tularemia case from Corum, a city in the central Anatolian region of Turkey.
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spelling doaj-art-fb8e1e84b47e4bc98f720383759f34c72025-08-20T03:16:22ZengHacettepe University Institute of Child HealthThe Turkish Journal of Pediatrics0041-43012791-64212011-10-01535Suppurative cervical adenopathy and pharyngeal mass due to tularemia unresponsive to medical treatmentYasemin Ozsürekci0Mehmet CeyhanMelda CelikAteş KaraAli Bülent CengizBurçe Ozgen-MocanPediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by Francisella tularensis. Tularemia presents with various clinical forms, such as ulceroglandular, glandular, oculoglandular, oropharyngeal, pneumonic, and typhoidal tularemia forms. As an intracellular pathogen, F. tularensis causes granulomatous and suppurative lesions especially in the affected regional lymph nodes and various organs. Tularemia is seen most commonly in the Black Sea and Marmara regions of Turkey. Herein, we describe a girl with tularemia who presented with right cervical lymphadenopathy and left nasopharyngeal mass. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of tularemia with deep neck infection and also the first tularemia case from Corum, a city in the central Anatolian region of Turkey. https://turkjpediatr.org/article/view/1817
spellingShingle Yasemin Ozsürekci
Mehmet Ceyhan
Melda Celik
Ateş Kara
Ali Bülent Cengiz
Burçe Ozgen-Mocan
Suppurative cervical adenopathy and pharyngeal mass due to tularemia unresponsive to medical treatment
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics
title Suppurative cervical adenopathy and pharyngeal mass due to tularemia unresponsive to medical treatment
title_full Suppurative cervical adenopathy and pharyngeal mass due to tularemia unresponsive to medical treatment
title_fullStr Suppurative cervical adenopathy and pharyngeal mass due to tularemia unresponsive to medical treatment
title_full_unstemmed Suppurative cervical adenopathy and pharyngeal mass due to tularemia unresponsive to medical treatment
title_short Suppurative cervical adenopathy and pharyngeal mass due to tularemia unresponsive to medical treatment
title_sort suppurative cervical adenopathy and pharyngeal mass due to tularemia unresponsive to medical treatment
url https://turkjpediatr.org/article/view/1817
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