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Following an aerosol release, pneumonic and typhoidal tularemia would tend to predominate. Typhus (scrub) (Orienta tsutsugamuchi) see page 108 6–18 days Sudden onset of flulike illness with fever, chills, severe headache, and myalgia. Associated with a papule at the site of inoculation (chigger bite) that progresses to an ulceration with a black crust or eschar that must be differentiated from cutaneous anthrax. Tender regional or general lymphadenopathy is common. CXR = chest x-ray 20 Acute Respiratory Syndrome with Fever Disease/Agent Incubation Initial Symptoms Anthrax, inhalational (Bacillus anthracis) see page 38 1–6 days 24–48 hours of fever (or recent history of fever), chills, cough, malaise, headache, myalgias, and possible chest tightness.
Weight loss, migratory arthralgias, and headache are also common. CXR often demonstrates unilateral infiltrates, effusions, and hilar adenopathy. Pulmonary nodules and cavitations may also occasionally be seen. Rash is common, with early fine papular, nonpruritic rash progressing to erythema nodosum and/or erythema multiforme (consider this diagnosis in the triad of fever, erythema nodosum, and arthralgias). May progress to superficial maculopapular lesions, cutaneous ulcers, subcutaneous abscesses, and/or lymphadenopathy.
Spreads centrally to trunk over 1–2 days. All lesions always at same stage of development (as opposed to chickenpox). Rash appears as macules and small papules (day 1–2) → papules (day 3–4) → vesicles (day 4–6) → pustules that may be umbilicated (day 7–10) → flattening of pustules (day 11) → crusting & scabbing (day 12–14). Lesions feel hard, like buckshot under the skin, are painful, and are of variable sizes. Tularemia (Francisella tularensis) see page 106 1–21 days Ulceroglandular tularemia is the most common natural form and presents as an erythematous and tender skin papule or 1–2 cm vesiculated lesion at the site of inoculation.