- 著者
- Minami Taki Yoshio Shimojima Ayako Nogami Takuhiro Yoshida Michio Suzuki Koichi Imaoka Hiroki Momoi Norinao Hanyu
- 出版者
- The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
- 雑誌
- Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.57, no.2, pp.273-277, 2018-01-15 (Released:2018-01-15)
- 参考文献数
- 10
- 被引用文献数
- 14
Sepsis caused by a Capnocytophaga canis infection has only been rarely reported. A 67-year-old female with a past medical history of splenectomy was admitted to our hospital with fever and general malaise. She had been bitten by a cat. She showed disseminated intravascular coagulation and multi-organ failure because of severe sepsis. On blood culture, characteristic gram-negative fusiform rods were detected; therefore, a Capnocytophaga species infection was suspected. A nucleotide sequence analysis revealed the species to be C. canis, which was newly identified in 2016. C. canis may have low virulence in humans; however, C. canis with oxidase activity may cause severe zoonotic infection.