Hi Chris! Actually it's plain old leprosy... I've seen a few of these over the years.
Before emrupdate.com I had to publish my fascinomas in the literature- imagine that! I published a case in Postgraduate Medicine (1988) of a gram positive rod that caused pus collections in my patient's eye, brain, and abdomen.
Answer: Nocardia sepsis. The guy died a miserable death... ![Sad [:(]](/emoticons/emotion-6.gif)
Posted
Aug 12 2006, 04:45 AM
by
alborg