Some peculiarities of the epidemiology and clinical course of tularaemia

Judging by the Russian literature available to us, tularaemia in the Soviet Union is relatively rare, poorly described, and therefore little known to the general medical community. In the majority of Russian works, however, clinical descriptions are given mainly by bacteriologists and participants in special teams or committees set up by medical organizations to investigate this plague-like disease. Apparently, this can explain the heterogeneity in the description of the clinical picture when summarizing these works and the absence of a firmly established and strictly pathogenic for this disease complete picture of the disease. Observing tularemia for three years among cannery workers of the Kurgan plant, we had an opportunity to trace the fullest variety of clinical forms of this disease and note the features in epidemiology and clinic, still not covered in the literature of this issue. This work is based on our material of 1932 and the end of 1931.