Non-severe Serovar Type E Capnocytophaga canimorsus Infection in a Post-splenectomy Male: A Case Report

• Published in: Curēus (Palo Alto, CA) Vol. 15; no. 4; p. e37630
• Main Authors: Horiuchi, Hiroshi, Suzuki, Michio, Imaoka, Koichi, Hayakawa, Syo, Niida, Shoko, Okano, Hiromu, Otsuka, Tsuyoshi, Miyazaki, Hiroshi, Furuya, Ryosuke
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Springer Nature B.V 16.04.2023; Cureus
• Subjects: Abdomen; Animal bites; Aortic aneurysms; Blood; Case reports; Consciousness; Cytokines; Emergency Medicine; Gastric cancer; Hemoglobin; Infections; Infectious Disease; Infectious diseases; Internal Medicine; Ions; Kinases; Laboratories; Mortality; Neutropenia; Neutrophils; Proteins; Tomography; Japan; serotype e; dog bite; capnocytophaga canimorsus; post-splenectomy infection; zoonosis

(CP) causes severe infections in immunocompromised individuals. Three serovars (A, B, and C) are known to be responsible for more than 90% of infections associated with dog bites, although these three constitute only 8% of the serovars carried by dogs. We experienced a post-splenectomy non-severe ca...