Dog-bite induced sepsis: a report of four cases

S Hovenga; JE Tulleken; LVM Moller; SA Jackson; TS Van der Werf; JG Zijlstra

Dog-bite induced sepsis: a report of four cases

S Hovenga, JE Tulleken, LVM Moller, SA Jackson, TS Van der Werf, JG Zijlstra^*

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Abstract

Occasionally, 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1179-1180
Number of pages	2
Journal	Intensive Care Medicine
Volume	23
Issue number	11
Publication status	Published - Nov-1997

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sepsis
Capnocytophaga canimorsus
dog-bite
CAPNOCYTOPHAGA-CANIMORSUS

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