Citation

Hovenga S, Tulleken JE, Möller LV, Jackson SA, vd Werf TS, Zijlstra JG. Intensive Care Med. 1997; 23(11): 1179-1180.

Affiliation

Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9434927

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.

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