We present a young pregnant woman who developed ulceroglandular tularaemia following a bite wound from a kitten. She grew from the ulcer. While awaiting bacterial culture results and serology for , she was treated with azithromycin, with resolution of fever and axillary tenderness. Treatment recommendations for tularemia are either gentamicin or doxycycline, both of which can be perilous to the fetus. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on the macrolide susceptibility of North American isolates of this organism has been underappreciated. The unanticipated result from this patient may give another potential option for treatment of tularemia in pregnancy.
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