TULAREMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tularemia mean? 

• TULAREMIA (noun)
  The noun TULAREMIA has 1 sense:

1. a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals

  Familiarity information: TULAREMIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TULAREMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

deer fly fever; rabbit fever; tularaemia; tularemia; yatobyo

Hypernyms ("tularemia" is a kind of...):

zoonosis; zoonotic disease (an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans)

Meronyms (parts of "tularemia"):

chancre (a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis))

 Context examples 

Although tularemia can be successfully treated with antibiotics, it is difficult to diagnose, mainly because F. tularensis bacteria can suppress the human immune response.

(Natural lipid acts as potent anti-inflammatory, National Institutes of Health)

Tularemia is a life-threatening disease spread to humans via contact with an infected animal or through the bite of a mosquito, tick or deer fly.

(Natural lipid acts as potent anti-inflammatory, National Institutes of Health)

In cell-culture experiments, the researchers discovered that the natural and a synthetic form of PE reduced inflammation caused by both tularemia bacteria and dengue fever virus.

(Natural lipid acts as potent anti-inflammatory, National Institutes of Health)

Lipids are known to help Francisella tularensis bacteria, the cause of tularemia, to suppress host inflammation when infecting mouse and human cells.

(Natural lipid acts as potent anti-inflammatory, National Institutes of Health)