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Volume 24, Number 4—April 2018
CME ACTIVITY - Synopsis

Reemergence of Intravenous Drug Use as Risk Factor for Candidemia, Massachusetts, USA

Nongnooch Poowanawittayakom, Anamika Dutta, Shannon Stock, Sunkaru Touray, Richard T. Ellison, and Stuart M. LevitzComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (N. Poowanawittayakom, S. Touray, R.T. Ellison III, S.M. Levitz); College of the Holy Cross, Worcester (A. Dutta, S. Stock)

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Distribution of candidemia cases associated with IVDU and non-IVDU by year at a tertiary care hospital, Massachusetts, USA, 2010–2017. Candidemia cases were divided into IVDU and non-IVDU groups and then plotted as a function of the year the patient had positive blood cultures for Candida. There were no positive blood cultures in January 2017, the last month of the study.

Figure. Distribution of candidemia cases associated with IVDU and non-IVDU by year at a tertiary care hospital, Massachusetts, USA, 2010–2017. Candidemia cases were divided into IVDU and non-IVDU groups and then plotted as a function of the year the patient had positive blood cultures for Candida. There were no positive blood cultures in January 2017, the last month of the study.

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