Rhodotorula Endogenous Endophthalmitis: A Novel Harbinger of the Injection Drug Epidemic in the United States
Endogenous endophthalmitis is a rare but feared infectious ocular complication of injection drug use (IDU). The recent opioid epidemic in the United States threatens to increase the incidence of this disease. We report the first case of endogenous endophthalmitis in the United States caused by the e...
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Main Authors: | Preston M. Luong, Basilio Kalpakian, Lawrence J. Jaeger, Timothy Lahey, Christopher B. Chapman, Michael E. Zegans |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2017-01-01
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Series: | Case Reports in Infectious Diseases |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9686353 |
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