Results on my PET scan. Can someone help me out? I am getting a PET scan tomorrow at 1:30 because my CAT scan showed 2 Nogules on one of my lungs. Can someone please tell me how soon after it, can I get my results and who do I get the results from? I am a smoker and I have COPD. I am on Oxygen 24/7.
Tularemia is a serious infectious disease caused by the intracellular bacterium Francisella tularensis. It causes fever, and sometimes ulceration at the site of entry and/or swelling of nearby lymph nodes. It can cause severe pneumonia.
Francisella tularensis is a highly contagious bacteria that causes tularemia, or rabbit fever (It is called rabbit fever because rabbits are vectors for the disease) that is contagious to humans.There are four known subspecies of Francisella tularensis.. tularensis is very infectious because it is capable of causing a debilitating or fatal disease with doses as low as 10 colony-forming units.(6) Some symptoms of tularemia are fever, ulcers, dyspnea, and others (depending on what part of the body is affected).