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J Med Microbiol 57 (2008), 901-903; DOI: 10.1099/jmm.0.47756-0
© 2008 Society for General Microbiology
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Case Report

Capnocytophaga canimorsus: infection, septicaemia, recovery and reconstruction

Stephanie Chiang-Mei Low and John Edward Greenwood

Burns Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia

Correspondence
Stephanie Chiang-Mei Low
stephanie.low{at}health.sa.gov.au

Received 8 November 2007
Accepted 11 March 2008

A case is presented of a life-threatening septicaemia and associated peripheral necrosing microembolic phenomenon, resulting from a dog lick to an insignificant burn wound. The isolated bacterium was Capnocytophaga canimorsus, a slow-growing Gram-negative bacillus commonly found in dog saliva. Any clinician seeing patients with a history of dog bite/saliva contact and progressive illness should consider this bacterium as a possible offender and take special care to elicit an accurate history, specifically including questions regarding animal contact.






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