'Biting the hand that feeds': Fever and altered sensorium following a dog bite

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hawkins, Joseph ^a   Wilson, Ann ^a   McWilliams, Eric ^a  

^a East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; MEROPENEM;

ACUTE CONFUSION; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA CANIMORSUS; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA CANIMORSUS INFECTION; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DOG BITE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EMBOLISM; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; JOINT NECROSIS; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PASTEURELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955421814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.08.2010.3265     Document Type: Article

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