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Spell Strike (Su): The blade adept can deliver touch spells with her bonded weapon. This works as the magus ability of the same name.

Touch Injection

Range personal
Target you

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While the spell lasts, you can deliver the substance with a mere touch. To do so to an opponent, you must make a successful melee [touch attack]

Touch Attacks

Some attacks completely disregard armor, including shields and natural armor—the aggressor need only touch a foe for such an attack to take full effect. In these cases, the attacker makes a touch attack roll (either ranged or melee).

Can I deliver the effect from Touch Injection using a weapon (by using the Spell Strike ability)?

I presume no. I can't find a concrete definition of touch spell, but I presume it's supposed to be in here:

Range

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Touch

You must touch a creature or object to affect it. A touch spell that deals damage can score a critical hit just as a weapon can.

It is only implied that spells with a range of touch are touch spells, and it is only implied, if at all, that spells with a range of touch are the only things that can be considered touch spells.

Can Spell Strike deliver the Touch Injection spell's touch attack?

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No.

Touch Injection isn't a touch spell (its range is “personnal”) and the delivery is not a spell (just a touch attack), so you can't use Spell Strike.

At 2nd level, whenever a magus casts a spell with a range of “touch” from the magus spell list, he can deliver the spell through any weapon he is wielding as part of a melee attack. Instead of the free melee touch attack normally allowed to deliver the spell, a magus can make one free melee attack with his weapon (at his highest base attack bonus) as part of casting this spell.

(emphasize mine)

Flavor-wise, since

You must hold an elixir, infused extract, poison, or potion in hand as you cast this spell. The held substance drains from its container into a magical sac in your body.

I'd say you can't use your sword.

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