Case Report

Tularemia: unexpected, but prevalent cause of cervical lymhadenopathy in Turkey. A case report and review of literature

10.2399/tao.06.028

  • Oğuz Karabay
  • Fahrettin Yılmaz
  • Şaban Gürcan

Received Date: 30.10.2006 Accepted Date: 10.09.2007 Turk Arch Otorhinolaryngol 2008;46(1):49-52

A man who had tonsillopharyngitis and lymphadenomegaly has been admitted to our outpatient clinic. His complaints had been unresponsive to various beta-lactam antibiotics treatments in this period. In this paper, we report a tularemia case and review of the current literature.

ÖZET

Bu yazıda, tonsillofarenjit ve servikal lenfadenopati şikayeti ile kliniğimize başvuran ve kullandığı çeşitli beta-laktam antibiyotiklere cevap vermeyen bir tularemi olgusunun literatür eşliğinde sunulması amaçlanmıştır.

Keywords: Tularemia, tonsillopharyngitis, cervical lymhadenopathy.