Francisella tularensis

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Fran·ci·sel·la tu·la·ren·sis

a bacterial species that causes tularemia in humans, transmitted from wild animals by bloodsucking insects or by contact with infected animals (for example, ticks); main sources of infection are rabbits and ticks; it can penetrate unbroken skin to cause infection, and if inhaled can cause a rapidly fatal pneumonia; type species of the genus Francisella.

Synonym(s): Pasteurella tularensis

Fran·ci·sel·la tu·la·ren·sis

(fran-si-sel'lă tū-lă-ren'sis)

A bacterial species that causes tularemia in humans, transmitted to them from wild animals by bloodsucking insects or by contact with infected animals such as rabbits and ticks; it can penetrate unbroken skin to cause infection. It is the type species of the genus Francisella.

Pasteur,

Louis, French chemist and bacteriologist, 1822-1895.

Pasteurella

Pasteurella aerogenes - species found in swine that can cause human wound infections following a pig bit.

Pasteurella multocida - bacterial species associated with dogs and cats.

Pasteurella pestis - Synonym(s): Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Pasteurella "SP" - a rarely encountered organism that can cause infection after a guinea pig bite

Pasteurella tularensis - Synonym(s): Francisella tularensis

Pasteur effect - the inhibition of fermentation by oxygen, first observed by Pasteur.

Pasteur pipette - a cotton-plugged, glass tube drawn out to a fine tip, used for the sterile transfer of small volumes of fluid.

Pasteur vaccine

pasteurellosis - infection with bacteria of Pasteurella.

pasteurization - bacteria destruction process.

pasteurizer - pasteurization apparatus.

Francisella

a genus of very small gram-negative bacteria.

Francisella tularensis

biotype A (F. tularensis biovar tularensis) is the etiological agent of tularemia; biotype B (F. tularensis biovar holarctica (palaearctica)) is less virulent. Formerly called Pasteurella tularensis.

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The PCR test targeting the tul4 gene which is common in Francisella tularensis species was found positive in all isolates investigated in this study (Figure 1).

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I was not disappointed and gleaned an understanding and respect for the dangers surrounding this small aerobic, gram-negative coccobacillus known as francisella tularensis.