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Pericardial effusion as the only manifestation of infection with Francisella tularensis: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Francisella tularensis, a facultative intracellular Gram-negative bacterium, has rarely been reported as an agent of pericarditis, generally described as a complication of tularemia sepsis. F. tularensis is a fastidious organism that grows poorly on standard culture media and diagnosis...

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Autores principales: Landais, Cécile, Levy, Pierre-Yves, Habib, Gilbert, Raoult, Didier
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2441635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18554395
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-206