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has been known to cause a variety of clinical manifestations ranging from mild enteric illness to bacteraemia with septic shock and extraintestinal abscesses. Patients with liver disease and iron overload are at risk of more severe disease manifestations.

A middle-aged male with chronic alcohol use disorder presented with confusion and jaundice, with ascites and asterixis noted on examination. His blood work was remarkable for neutrophilic leukocytosis, elevated liver enzymes and lactate. An abdominal computed tomography scan revealed splenic microabscesses and a cirrhotic liver. was recovered from his blood cultures and he was treated with ceftriaxone following susceptibility results.

should be considered in the differential diagnosis of splenic or other extraintestinal microabscesses particularly in patients with chronic liver disease.

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