Medicine Flashcards
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Tularemia
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Purulent conjunctivitis and suppurative preauricular lymphadenitis (Parinaud oculoglandular syndrome) should raise suspicion for infection with Francisella tularensis, a gram (-) coccobacillus spread by wild animals and tick bites. Other causes include infection w Bartonella henselae and herpes simplex virus
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