title: Dog-bite induced sepsis: a report of four cases.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hovenga
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Tulleken
authors.forename: L V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Möller
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Jackson
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: vd Werf
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Zijlstra
mesh_terms: 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*