Capnocytophaga canimorsus: infection, septicaemia, recovery and reconstruction Low, Stephanie Chiang-Mei and Greenwood, John Edward,, 57, 901-903 (2008), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.47756-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 0022-2615, abstract= 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., language=, type=