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Fever and Infections in Intravenous Drug Abusers (IVDA)

July 14, 2011 by CrashMaster

All should probably be admitted as the incidence of occult serious infection is high.

Infectious Endocarditis

Abscess

Eikenella, a gram-negative aerobe and notorious pathogen in human fight bites, was cultured from 25% of abscesses in one series

Osteomyelitis

Spinal Epidural Abscess

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