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A 45-year old man with fever, abdominal pain, and a pulsating mass underwent an aneurysmectomy, with in situ reconstruction using a bifurcated knitted Dacron graft, for a saccular abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). A culture taken postoperatively grewCampylobacter fetus subspecies fetus. The administration of antibiotics sensitive to this organism was continued for 3 months, and no infection has been encountered in the 1 year since his operation. This is only the 13th documented case of AAA infected byC. fetus subspecies fetus.
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Mii, S., Tanaka, K., Furugaki, K. et al. Infected abdominal aortic aneurysm caused bycampylobacter fetus subspecies fetus: Report of a case. Surg Today 28, 661–664 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s005950050204
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