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Pol. Merkur. Lekarski · Oct 2015
Case Reports[Severe sepsis after dog bite caused by Capnocytophaga canimorsus].
- Paweł Dobosz, Danuta Martyna, Elżbieta Stefaniuk, Katarzyna Szczypa, and Waleria Hryniewicz.
- Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Independent Public Health Care in Brzesko, Poland.
- Pol. Merkur. Lekarski. 2015 Oct 1; 39 (232): 219-22.
AbstractWe describe a case of a life-threatening septicemia resulting from a previous dog bite wound. The isolated bacterium was Capnocytophaga canimorsus, a slow-growing Gram-negative bacillus commonly found in dog saliva. Known risk factors for invasive C. canimorsus infections are alcohol abuse, cigarette smoking, splenectomy or other forms of immunosuppression. Any clinician seeing patients with a history of a dog bite should consider this pathogen as a causative agent and take detailed history regarding exposure to animals. © 2015 MEDPRESS.
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