Treatment of Tularemia in Pregnant Woman, France

Abstract

A pregnant woman who had oropharyngeal tularemia underwent treatment with azithromycin and lymph node resection and recovered without obstetrical complication or infection in the child. Azithromycin represents a first-line treatment option for tularemia during pregnancy in regions where the infecting strains of Francisella tularensis have no natural resistance to macrolides.

Keywords

• tularemia
• Francisella tularensis
• pregnancy
• macrolides
• France
• antimicrobial drugs