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Volume 344:233-234 January 18, 2001 Number 3
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Abiotrophia Species Bacteremia and a Mycotic Aneurysm in an Intravenous Drug Abuser

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To the Editor: Recently there have been reports of unexplained sepsis and deaths among intravenous drug abusers in Scotland, Ireland, and England.1 Approximately one quarter of these cases have been associated with clostridium species, of which half were identified as Clostridium novyi. We report a case of bacteremia in an intravenous drug abuser who developed a mycotic aneurysm due to another unusual, fastidious organism.

A 42-year-old man presented with a three-day history of fever and soft-tissue swelling in his right upper arm. The patient was an intravenous drug abuser. Four days earlier he had crushed a lorazepam tablet, mixed it . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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