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an outbreak of phialemonium infective endocarditis linked to intracavernous penile injections for the treatment of impotence.

in march 2002, a patient in tel aviv, israel, died of endocarditis caused by phialemonium curvatum. as part of his therapy for erectile dysfunction, the patient had been trained to self-inject a compound of vasoactive drugs provided by an impotence clinic into his penile corpus cavernosous.