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Infectious aortitis due to penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae
A C Maclennan1, D L Doyle, S L Sacks
1Department of Radiology, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, UBC Pavilions, British Columbia, Canada.
Annals of Vascular Surgery
|September 25, 1997
Abstract:
Infectious aortitis is uncommon and typically affects elderly immunocompromised men, with a Salmonella or Staphylococcal infection of an atheromatous or aneurysmal aorta. We present a fit young man who developed infectious aortitis with peripheral embolization due to a penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteremia.