Sepsis and meningitis due to Capnocytophaga cynodegmi after splenectomy [8]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1709-1710

  Khawari, Abbas A ^a   Myers, James W ^a,b   Ferguson Jr , Donald A ^a   Moorman, Jonathan P ^a,b  

^a East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^b James H Quillen Veterans Affair Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; BITE; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA CYNODEGMI; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FULMINATING PURPURA; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; LETTER; MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SPLENECTOMY; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; DOGS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; SEPSIS; SPLENECTOMY;

EID: 19344363057     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430178     Document Type: Letter

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