• Intensive care medicine · Nov 1997

    Case Reports

    Dog-bite induced sepsis: a report of four cases.

    • S Hovenga, J E Tulleken, L V Möller, S A Jackson, T S vd Werf, and J G Zijlstra.
    • Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.
    • Intensive Care Med. 1997 Nov 1; 23 (11): 117911801179-80.

    AbstractOccasionally, a dog-bite is complicated by a systemic overwhelming infection. We report four consecutive patients who were admitted to our intensive care unit because of sepsis syndrome following dog-bites. The history of these patients did not reveal any immunocompromising conditions. Capnocytophaga canimorsus (C. canimorsus) was cultured from the blood culture of 2 patients. Our data illustrate that in patients with lack of immune-deficiency severe sepsis may develop.

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