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.
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Hovenga, S., Tulleken, J.E., Möller, L.V.M. et al. Dog-bite induced sepsis: a report of four cases. Intensive Care Med 23, 1179–1180 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001340050478
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