Death caused by DF-2, following a dog-bite.
The Gram-negative rod DF-2 was isolated from blood-cultures, the blood sample taken 3 days after death from a 65-year-old woman who had been bitten in her finger by her dog. At the medico-legal external examination marbling of the skin was found, suggesting septicemia. In persons found dead with a history of dog exposition and with no other obvious cause of death, examination for DF-2 should be performed.
D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001733:Bites and Stings / Q000150:complications*; D004285:Dogs / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D006090:Gram-Negative Bacteria / Q000472:pathogenicity; D006801:Humans; D018805:Sepsis / Q000473:pathology*