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A 55-year-old diabetic female patient presented with facial pain and numbness along with conjunctival suffusion and blurring of vision for 6 days. Patient was conservatively managed and sent home. After a week, she presented to the ER again with B/L proptosis, chemosis, vision loss and ophthalmoplegia along with a characteristic lesion on the nose. Smear was prepared from the nasal lesion.

AAmphotericin B
BPosaconazole
CItraconazole
DCaspofungin
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1132 Unknown

A 65-year-old man with a long history of diabetes mellitus was hospitalized for treatment of an ulcer, which had been present on his left great toe for several months. Left sided below knee amputation was performed because of the inability multiple courses of oral antibiotics to resolve the ulcer, On the first postoperative day, he developed fever which worsened by day 2. His amputation stump was mottled with many areas of purplish discoloration, and the most distal areas were quite obviously necrotic. Crepitus was palpable up to his patella. An X-ray of the left lower extremity was done. What is the likely pathogen?

AEscherichia coli
BActinomyces israelii
CClostridium perfringens
DStaphylococcus aureus
Unknown
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