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Case Report| Volume 47, ISSUE 3, P248-250, October 2003

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Fatal Clostridium perfringens infection of a liver cyst

      Abstract

      We report a case of Clostridium perfringens infection of a pre-existing hepatic cyst leading to a fatal outcome.

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