1. Presented by Ralph Hruban, M.D. and prepared by Andrea Subhawong, M.D.

This patient with a history of chronic liver disease developed a gangrenous leg infection after bathing in the seawaters of southern Alabama. A skin biopsy was performed. The illness rapidly progressed and the patient succumbed to his disease within hours.

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