PULMONARY MANIFESTATIONS IN HUMAN TULAREMIA

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Abstract
Thirty-five cases of tularemia have been recognized at the University of Virginia Hospital since 1927. Thirty-four of the diagnoses have been confirmed by characteristic agglutination reactions, the remaining one by recovery of the organism after death. Roentgen study of the chest had not been made in a single case in this series prior to the tularemic infection. Chest films have been taken in thirty-four of the thirty-five cases at some time subsequent to the inoculation. Roentgenograms of the chest were obtained in eighteen patients during the active stage of the disease (i. e., within three months of inoculation), eight of these returning after recovery for further roentgen examination. Chest films after recovery were made in sixteen of the remaining cases. It is unfortunate that films were not obtained during the active stage of the disease in all the cases, but it was not until late in this series that it

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