%0 Journal Article %A Low, Stephanie Chiang-Mei %A Greenwood, John Edward %T Capnocytophaga canimorsus: infection, septicaemia, recovery and reconstruction %D 2008 %J Journal of Medical Microbiology, %V 57 %N 7 %P 901-903 %@ 1473-5644 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.47756-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X 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. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jmm/10.1099/jmm.0.47756-0