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A 25-Year-Old Man Who Has Recently Started Doing Intravenous Drugs

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A 25-year-old man who has recently started doing intravenous drugs presents to the emergency department with fever and evidence of mild tricuspid valve insufficiency. As far as he knows, he had no previous damage to his heart. What is the most likely causative agent?


A) Candida albicans
B) Coxsackie virus
C) Enterococcus faecalis
D) Pseudomonas aeruginosa
E) Staphylococcus aureus

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