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case_images: The patient's diagnostic imaging. (A) Reconstruction of the CT angiography image. (B) CT angiography indicated an unruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (arrowhead).
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case_images: Four months before the current presentation, the patient was admitted to our institution because of hematemesis and melena, although CT angiography (CTA) showed the presence of an unruptured AAA (Figure 1), which was treated with endovascular stent-graft implantation.
case_images: The phenotype of Peptoniphilus harei. (A) Gram staining of P. harei from a positive aerobic blood culture showed gram-positive cocci (1,000x magnification) (arrowhead). (B) Gram-stained colonies showing gram-positive cocci. (C)
  P. harei colonies on blood agar after 48 h of incubation under anaerobic conditions.
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case_images: Within 1 day, growth on Columbia agar plates revealed pinpoint, smooth glistening gray colonies and Gram staining showed gram-positive cocci (Figure 2).