Capnocytophaga canimorsus as Cause of Fatal Sepsis

A rare consequence of dog bites is the infection with Capnocytophaga canimorsus, and only a few cases have been documented. We describe a 41-year-old, formerly healthy woman who died from septic shock and multiorgan failure. It is the first case of a young individual without obvious immunosuppressio...

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Autores principales: Hundertmark, Moritz, Williams, Tatjana, Vogel, Anja, Moritz, Maria, Bramlage, Peter, Pagonas, Nikolaos, Ritter, Oliver, Sasko, Benjamin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6556245/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31240140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3537507
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author Hundertmark, Moritz
Williams, Tatjana
Vogel, Anja
Moritz, Maria
Bramlage, Peter
Pagonas, Nikolaos
Ritter, Oliver
Sasko, Benjamin
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description A rare consequence of dog bites is the infection with Capnocytophaga canimorsus, and only a few cases have been documented. We describe a 41-year-old, formerly healthy woman who died from septic shock and multiorgan failure. It is the first case of a young individual without obvious immunosuppression.
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spelling pubmed-65562452019-06-25 Capnocytophaga canimorsus as Cause of Fatal Sepsis Hundertmark, Moritz Williams, Tatjana Vogel, Anja Moritz, Maria Bramlage, Peter Pagonas, Nikolaos Ritter, Oliver Sasko, Benjamin Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report A rare consequence of dog bites is the infection with Capnocytophaga canimorsus, and only a few cases have been documented. We describe a 41-year-old, formerly healthy woman who died from septic shock and multiorgan failure. It is the first case of a young individual without obvious immunosuppression. Hindawi 2019-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6556245/ /pubmed/31240140 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3537507 Text en Copyright © 2019 Moritz Hundertmark et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pagonas, Nikolaos
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Capnocytophaga canimorsus as Cause of Fatal Sepsis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6556245/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/3537507
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