Capnocytophaga canimorsus: an emerging cause of sepsis, meningitis, and post-splenectomy infection after dog bites

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1271-1280

  Butler, T ^a,b  

^a ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Dominica)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CATALASE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COMPLEMENT; CYTOTOXIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; SIALIDASE; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALCOHOLISM; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA CANIMORSUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOG BITE; ENDOCARDITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EYE INFECTION; FATALITY; GANGRENE; GLIDING MOTILITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; LICKING; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SPLENECTOMY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; BITES AND STINGS; CAT; DISEASE CARRIER; DOG; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; META ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; SPLEEN;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BITES AND STINGS; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; CATS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DOGS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; SEPSIS; SPLEEN; SPLENECTOMY; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84931570574     PISSN: 09349723     EISSN: 14354373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10096-015-2360-7     Document Type: Review

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