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AI InsightHere we present a 22-year-old female patient who developed cervical LAP after tonsillopharyngitis and was diagnosed with oropharyngeal tularemia that was determined to be related to drinking mountain water.
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Abstract
Tularemia is a zoonotic disease that can be passed to humans via the consumption of wild animal meat or inadequately cooked contaminated drinking water. There has been an increase in the number of observed cases in recent years. The clinical picture may vary from asymptomatic disease to septic shock. Oropharyngeal type of the disease is the most common clinical form and is associated with pharyngitis, fever and cervical lymphadenopathy (LAP). Here we present a 22-year-old female patient who developed cervical LAP after tonsillopharyngitis and was diagnosed with oropharyngeal tularemia that was determined to be related to drinking mountain water.
Özet
Tularemi, kontamine olmuş suların içilmesi veya yetersiz pişirilmiş vahşi hayvan etlerinin tüketilmesi ile insana geçebilen zoonotik bir hastalıktır ve son yıllarda olgu sayısında giderek artma gözlenmektedir. Hastalık asemptomatik halden septik şoka kadar giden klinik bir tablo ile seyredebilir. Klinikte orofarengeal tipi farenjit, ateş ve servikal lenfadenopati (LAP) ile seyreder ve ülkemizde de en sık görülen şeklidir. Burada 22 yaşında bayan hastada tonsillofarenjit sonrası gelişen servikal LAP ve sonrasında dağ suyu içilmesi ile ilgili olduğu saptanarak, orofarengeal tularemi tanısı alan olgu sunulmaktadır.