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Volume 23, Number 1—January 2017
CME ACTIVITY - Research

Analysis of Anthrax Immune Globulin Intravenous with Antimicrobial Treatment in Injection Drug Users, Scotland, 2009–2010

Xizhong Cui1, Leisha D. Nolen1, Junfeng Sun, Malcolm Booth, Lindsay Donaldson, Conrad P. Quinn, Anne E. Boyer, Katherine A. Hendricks, Sean Shadomy, Pieter Bothma, Owen Judd, Paul McConnell, William A. Bower, and Peter Q. EichackerComments to Author 
Author affiliations: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (X. Cui, J. Sun, P.Q. Eichacker); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (L.D. Nolen, C.P. Quinn, A.E. Boyer, K. Hendricks, S. Shadomy, W.A. Bower); Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK (M. Booth, L. Donaldson); James Paget University Hospital, Norfolk, UK (P. Bothma); Royal Derby Hospital, Derby, UK (O. Judd); Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock, UK (P. McConnell)

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Figure 1

Key events during the illness courses of 15 patients who received AIG-IV (10 survivors, 5 nonsurvivors) and 28 patients who did not receive AIG-IV (22 survivors, 6 nonsurvivors) from the time of their suspected exposure to contaminated heroin to the time of discharge from hospital or to death, Scotland, UK, 2009–2010. A) AIG-IV recipient who survived. B) AIG-IV recipient who died. C) AIG-IV nonrecipient who survived. D) AIG-IV nonrecipient who died. AIG-IV, anthrax immune globulin intravenous; I

Figure 1. Key events during the illness courses of 15 patients who received AIG-IV (10 survivors, 5 nonsurvivors) and 28 patients who did not receive AIG-IV (22 survivors, 6 nonsurvivors) from the time of their suspected exposure to contaminated heroin to the time of discharge from hospital or to death, Scotland, UK, 2009–2010. A) AIG-IV recipient who survived. B) AIG-IV recipient who died. C) AIG-IV nonrecipient who survived. D) AIG-IV nonrecipient who died. AIG-IV, anthrax immune globulin intravenous; ICU, intensive care unit; SOFA, sequential organ failure.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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