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Tularemia of the middle ear
Leevi Luotonen1, Terhi Tapiainen, Matti Kallioinen
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Oulu University Central Hospital, Finland.
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
|May 15, 2002
Abstract:
We report the case of a 10-year-old boy with prolonged fever who was found to have tularemia of the middle ear. Otolaryngologic cases including oropharyngeal and glandular or ulceroglandular forms of the head and neck region are estimated to account for 12% of all tularemia cases, but to date we have not seen a report of tularemia in the middle ear. The possibility of tularemia may not occur to a physician because of the wide variation of clinical manifestations.