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Xiang Y Han1, Linus X Ho, Amar Safdar
1University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. xhan@mdanderson.org
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|January 25, 2005
Abstract:
Tularemia with peritonitis developed in a 50-year-old man soon after diagnosis of stomach cancer with metastasis. The ascites grew Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica, which was identified by sequencing analysis of the 16S rDNA. The infection resolved with antimicrobial treatment. Antibodies detected 4 weeks after onset disappeared after chemotherapy-associated lymphopenia.