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Tularaemia
Tularaemia
Statutory notification
Tularaemia is a notifiable infectious disease in Western Australia.
Alert
: cases must be reported urgently by telephone to the
Public Health Unit
within a few hours of first suspicion of diagnosis.
See
notifiable communicable disease case definitions (Word 1.29MB)
.
Notifications should be made using the communicable disease notification form for
metropolitan residents (PDF 209KB)
or
regional residents (PDF 209KB)
.
For notification of regional residents see contact details of
public health units
.
See also description of
Statutory medical notifications in Western Australia
.
Public health management
Infectious agent
:
Francisella tularensis
.
Transmission
: Usually arthropod bites including ticks in North America and Eurasia and some mosquito species in Russia and Sweden. Other sources of infection include, handling infectious animal tissues or fluids, direct contact or ingestion of contaminated water, food or soil and inhalation of infective aerosols e.g. handling damp hay.
Francisella tularensis
is not endemic in Australia.
Incubation period
: From 1 to 14 days.
Infectious period
: No direct person to person transmission.
Case exclusion
: Isolate as a precaution while patient is undergoing antibiotic therapy.
Contact exclusion
: Do not exclude.
Treatment
: Antibiotic treatment as recommended by the doctor.
Immunisation
: Vaccine is used in some occupational high risk groups in endemic countries.
Case and contact follow up
: Is conducted by Public Health Units and the Communicable Disease Control Directorate.
Notifiable disease data and reports
Notifiable infectious disease dashboard
Infectious disease data reports
Produced by
Public Health