TULAREMIA
- 1 January 1935
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1908)
- Vol. 55 (1) , 61-85
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1935.00160190064007
Abstract
It is my purpose in this paper not to review to any extent the literature pertaining to tularemia but to report a study of 123 cases of tularemia coming under my personal observation and, incidentally, to add new clinical and pathologic material to the known facts concerning an interesting and comparatively new disease. HISTORY Tularemia has the distinction of being a truly American disease. American investigators not only discovered its specific etiologic agent and its modes of transmission from animal to animal and from animal to man but described completely, for the first time, its bacteriology, pathology and clinical manifestations. McCoy,1 in 1911, contributed the first scientific knowledge of the disease by his description of a "plague-like disease of rodents" which he encountered while investigating a plague among ground squirrels in California. In 1912, the causative organism was identified by McCoy and Chapin2 and given the name BacillusThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: