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== Clinical Summary ==
This 4-year-old female sustained second and third degree burns involving approximately forty percent of the body surface. Subsequently, she developed septicemia secondary to skin infection and died in septic shock on the 10th hospital day. Antemortem blood cultures were positive for Enterobacter aerogenes and Staphylococcus aureus.
== Images ==
File:IPLab4SepticEmboli8.jpg|This is a high-powered photomicrograph of a myocardial abscess stained with a special tissue Gram stain (Brown & Brenn) to illustrate the colonies of bacteria in this myocardial tissue (arrows).
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== Virtual Microscopy ==
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== Study Questions ==