Two anthrax cases with soft tissue infection, severe oedema and sepsis in Danish heroin users

BACKGROUND: Anthrax had become extremely rare in Europe, but in 2010 an outbreak of anthrax among heroin users in Scotland increased awareness of contaminated heroin as a source of anthrax. We present the first two Danish cases of injectional anthrax and discuss the clinical presentations, which inc...

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Autores principales: Russell, Lene, Pedersen, Michael, Jensen, Andreas V, Søes, Lillian Marie, Hansen, Ann-Brit Eg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3844346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24004900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-408

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3844346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24004900
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-13-408

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