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A 67-year-old gentleman with diabetes and peripheral vascular disease presented with a wound on his great toe with necrosis and maggots in the wound bed. He was found to have bacteremia. 

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Author Information

Gretchen Arnoczy, M.D., Infectious Diseases Physician, FirstHealth of the Carolinas.
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