Fig. 4
a Three syringes were found among the patient’s belongings, and one of these contained a small amount of turbid liquid. b DNA fingerprints generated from repetitive element sequence-based polymerase chain reaction analysis. The Enterococcus faecalis strains from pus derived from the muscle (d) and from the syringe contents (e) proved to be genetically identical, but strains from other patients (a, b, c) were different. M mark