Corresponding Author: Alon Vaisman, MD, MAS, 8PMB 104 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto General Hospital M5G 2C4 (alon.vaisman@uhn.ca).
Published Online: March 28, 2022. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2022.0413
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.
Additional Contributions: We thank the patient for granting permission to publish this information.
Additional Information: Dr Halani is an internal medicine resident, Dr Vaisman is an infectious diseases staff physician, and Dr McIntyre is an infectious disease pharmacist. Drs Vaisman and Halani were involved in case preparation. Drs Halani, Vaisman, and McIntyre were involved in the literature search, manuscript preparation, and editing and revising the manuscript. All authors contributed to the preparation of this article.
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