TY - JOUR T1 - <em>Clostridium novyi</em> infection: a fatal association with injecting drug users JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 138 LP - 139 DO - 10.1136/emj.18.2.138 VL - 18 IS - 2 AU - J M Ryan AU - J Paul AU - S Curtis AU - N K Patel Y1 - 2001/03/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/18/2/138.abstract N2 - Injecting drug users frequently use accident and emergency (A&amp;E) departments to access emergency care for local and systemic infections. Clostridium novyi type A is a bacterium that has recently been associated with a number of fatalities among drug injecting addicts. The clinical course is described of a patient who attended an A&amp;E department with septicaemia who was found at postmortem examination to have been infected with Clostridium novyi type A. Doctors working in A&amp;E departments should be aware of the existence of this infection and be vigilant when treating injecting drug users with localised infection. ER -