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To the Editor: A 37-year-old man who had had severe diabetes since the age of 7, including complications of retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy, macroangiopathy, and microangiopathy, and who had received a cadaveric kidney–pancreas transplant three years earlier was hospitalized for acute infectious prepatellar bursitis of the left knee. Since receiving his transplant, he had taken 125 mg of cyclosporine orally twice daily, 10 mg of prednisone daily, 1 g of mycophenolate mofetil orally daily, and a single tablet of double-strength trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole daily. Intravenous treatment with 2 g of cefazolin every eight hours and 2 g of aztreonam every eight hours was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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