Francisella tularensisin New England

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Tularemia was first described by McCoy in 1911 as a "plague-like disease of rodents"; the etiologic agent was identified in the following year and named Bacterium tularense after Tulare County, California, the location of the initially observed epizootic among ground squirrels. Because the illness that it causes is clinically similar to plague, in both man and animals, the organism became known as Pasteurella tularensis. However, this organism is distinctly different from other pasteurella species, so that it has recently been renamed Francisella tularensis after Dr. Edward Francis, whose early work led to clarification of transmission cycles and etiologic and immunologic . . .

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