Differential diagnosis plague

Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Abdominal aneurysm, aortic dissection, pleural effusion, subarachnoid hemorrhage, superior vena cava syndrome, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, mediastinitis, fulminate mediastinal tumors pneumonia, gastroenteritis, meningitis, ecthyma, rat bite fever, spider bite, leprosy, plague, tularemia, coccidioidomycosis, diphtheria, glanders, histoplasmosis, psittacosis, typhoid fever, and rickettsial pox. 

Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Psittacosis, Q fever, plague, diphtheria, tick-borne diseases, mycotic infections. 

Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Plague and other septicemic diseases, acute pneumonia. 

Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Other causes of pneumonia, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, plague, anthrax infection, smallpox. 

Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Drug induced noncardiac pulmonary edema, acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonic plague, tularemia, Q fever, and viral influenza. 

Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Acute respiratory distress syndrome, congestive heart failure, pulmonary edema, AIDS, pneumonia, cardiogenic shock, septic shock, phosgene toxicity, phosphine toxicity, salicylate toxicity with pulmonary edema, influenza, plague, tularemia, and anthrax. 

Suggested Alternatives for Differential Diagnosis Smallpox, pseudocowpox/paravaccinia, Varicella-zoster, tularemia, plague, parapox virus, Eczema herpeticum. 

Differential Diagnosis An epidemic of inhalation anthrax in its early stage with nonspecific symptoms could be confused with a number of viral, bacteria, and fungal infections. Progression over two to three days with sudden development of severe respiratory distress followed by shock and death within twenty-four to thirty-six hours in essentially all untreated cases eliminates diagnosis other than inhalation anthrax. Other diagnosis to consider would include aerosol exposure to staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB), plague, or tularemia pneumonia. 

Differential Diagnosis Q fever usually presents as an undifferentiated febrile illness, or a primary atypical pneumonia, which must be differentiated from pneumonia caused by mycoplasm, Tegionnaires disease, psittacosis or Chlamydia pneumoniae. More rapidly progressive forms of pneumonia may look like bacterial pneumonia including tularemia or plague. 

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