Low Stephanie Chiang-Mei, Greenwood John Edward
Burns Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia.
J Med Microbiol. 2008 Jul;57(Pt 7):901-903. doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.47756-0.
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.
本文报告了一例因狗舔轻微烧伤伤口导致的危及生命的败血症及相关外周坏死性微栓塞现象。分离出的细菌是犬咬二氧化碳嗜纤维菌，一种常见于狗唾液中的生长缓慢的革兰氏阴性杆菌。任何接诊有狗咬伤/接触狗唾液史且病情进展的患者的临床医生，都应考虑这种细菌可能是病因，并特别注意获取准确的病史，尤其要包括有关动物接触的问题。
