A Feline Encounter: A Rare but Serious Cause of Septicaemia

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作者

Ihsan JIBRIL¹ , Chris O DUROJAIYE¹

1. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS FoundationTrust

会议/活动

Federation Of Infection Societies (FIS) Conference 2022, September 2022 (London, United Kingdom)

海报摘要

A case of fulminant sepsis caused by Capnocytophaga canimorsus after a cat scratch

关键词

Animal bite, Capnocytophaga, Septicaemia, Cat scratch

研究领域

Medicine

参考文献

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利益冲突

No competing interests were disclosed.

数据可用性声明

The datasets generated during and / or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Copyright © 2022 JIBRIL et al. This is an open access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.