The first case of infection in Taiwan: bacteraemic pneumonia in a haemodialysis adult.

Tularaemia is a zoonotic disease caused by (). Human infection is rare and can be life-threatening. used to be a subspecies of , is now considered a different species, . Though less virulent, can cause morbidity and mortality among debilitated or immunocompromised patients. We reported that an adult with end-stage renal disease undergoing haemodialysis and a history of melioidotic aortic aneurysm developed bacteraemic pneumonia, which was uneventfully treated by antimicrobial therapy. The microbiological confirmation of infection relies on 16S rRNA sequencing. It is the first case of infection in Taiwan.