title: [Severe sepsis after dog bite caused by Capnocytophaga canimorsus].
abstract: We describe a case of a life-threatening septicemia resulting from a previous dog bite wound. The isolated bacterium was Capnocytophaga canimorsus, a slow-growing Gram-negative bacillus commonly found in dog saliva. Known risk factors for invasive C. canimorsus infections are alcohol abuse, cigarette smoking, splenectomy or other forms of immunosuppression. Any clinician seeing patients with a history of a dog bite should consider this pathogen as a causative agent and take detailed history regarding exposure to animals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Independent Public Health Care in Brzesko, Poland.
authors.forename: Paweł
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dobosz
authors.affiliation: Microbiological Laboratory, Independent Public Health Care in Brzesko, Poland.
authors.forename: Danuta
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Martyna
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology, National Medicines Institute in Warsaw, Poland; Center for Quality Control in Microbiological Diagnostics, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Elżbieta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stefaniuk
authors.affiliation: Foundation "Centre of Clinical Microbiology" in Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Szczypa
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology, National Medicines Institute in Warsaw, Poland; Center for Quality Control in Microbiological Diagnostics, Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Waleria
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hryniewicz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000818:Animals; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000382:microbiology*; D001733:Bites and Stings / Q000150:complications*; D002206:Capnocytophaga / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004285:Dogs; D016905:Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012907:Smoking
keywords: Capnocytophaga canimorsus; sepsis; wounds after animal-bites