infections
Tularemia
Prognosis for Tularemia
With appropriate treatment, almost everyone recovers. Without treatment, the death rate varies from 6% in people with ulceroglandular tularemia to as high as 33% in people with typhoidal, pneumonic, or septicemic tularemia. Death usually results from overwhelming infection, pneumonia, meningitis, or peritonitis. Relapses are uncommon but can occur if treatment is inadequate. People who have had tularemia are immune to reinfection. 