Dog-bite induced sepsis: a report of four cases.
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.
Hovenga
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Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.
Tulleken
J E
JE
Möller
L V
LV
Jackson
S A
SA
vd Werf
T S
TS
Zijlstra
J G
JG
D000818:Animals; D001733:Bites and Stings / Q000150:complications*; D002206:Capnocytophaga / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004285:Dogs; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D018746:Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / Q000209:etiology*