Pediatric Tularemia presenting with a neck mass

Serhan Küpeli¹, Recep Tekin²

¹Diyarbakir Children's Hospital, Pediatric Oncology Unit, Yenisehir, Diyarbakir, Turkey.

²Diyarbakir Children’s Hospital, Infectious Diseases Unit, Yenisehir, Diyarbakir, Turkey.

ABSTRACT

An eight-year-old patient admitted with a suspected neck mass who was diagnosed tularemia is presented in this report. The patient’s family was seasonal agricultural workers in a village of Yozgat province of Turkey. In admission, presenting symptoms were fever and painful neck mass in left cervical region. Tularemia was diagnosed with serologic tests and the lesion well responded to streptomycin. In patients presented with fever and neck mass, tularemia must be kept in mind in differential diagnosis and specific tests should be done especially in patients living or working in rural areas. J Microbiol Infect Dis 2011; 1(2) : 73-74

Key words: Tularemia, neck mass, childhood