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| Ulcerated carcinoma of colon, iron deficiency anemia, catalase positive, gram positive coccin in chains, may also cause Subacute bacterial endocarditis |
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Sepsis with skin infections, Intravenous drug users in addition to Acute bacterial endocarditis |
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(e.g., E. coli) - Secondary to untreated urinary tract infection with urosepsis, gram negative bacilli |
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More serious type due to Plasmodium falciparum, travel to Africa or Southeast Asia/India, high fever, shaking chills, banana shaped gametocytes and trophozoite ring forms in peripheral blood smear, red blood cells of all ages infected |
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Northeast US Connecticut, tick borne, Ixodes dammini/I. scapularis, deer tick, fever, dark urine, increased risk in patients with no functional spleen, diabetics, classic tetrad form in red blood cells in a peripheral blood smear |
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