Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jun 2013)

Treatment of Tularemia in Pregnant Woman, France

  • Charlotte Dentan,
  • Patricia Pavese,
  • Isabelle Pelloux,
  • Sandrine Boisset,
  • Jean-Paul Brion,
  • Jean-Paul Stahl,
  • Max Maurin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1906.130138
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 6
pp. 996 – 998

Abstract

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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.

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