Recurrent septicemia caused by Streptococcus canis after a dog bite.
Human infection with Streptococcus canis is extremely rare. We describe herein a case of septicemia with cellulitis caused by S. canis in a 75-y-old woman, which developed 2 weeks after a dog bite. Macrorestriction analysis with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis demonstrated that the organism had been transmitted by means of a dog bite to her hand.
Takeda
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Department of Cardiology, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan.
Kikuchi
K
K
Asano
R
R
Harada
T
T
Totsuka
K
K
Sumiyoshi
T
T
Uchiyama
T
T
Hosoda
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S
D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000635:transmission*; D001733:Bites and Stings / Q000382:microbiology*; D004285:Dogs / Q000382:microbiology*; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012008:Recurrence; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000635:transmission*; D013291:Streptococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification*