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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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