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EDWARD FRANCIS, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1942;28(4):711-741.

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The object of the present paper is the presentation of clinical and bacteriologic data derived from 78 proved cases of oculoglandular tularemia observed in the United States and from 18 in foreign countries.

Ophthalmologists have been the first to recognize cases of tularemia in human beings in three of the nine countries in which such cases have been reported. The record is clear that D. T. Vail Sr., of the United States; Granström, of Sweden, and Pillat, of Austria, all ophthalmologists, have taken the lead in recognition of tularemia in human beings in their respective countries.

The greater vulnerability to tularemia infection of the conjunctiva in comparison with the skin is amply demonstrated by 78 ocular infections in the United States, of which only 6 were accompanied with infection of the hand although the eye and the hand in the 72 cases were subjected to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
WASHINGTON, D. C.

From the Division of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health.

Footnotes
Medical Director (Retired), United States Public Health Service.

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