sepsis caused by newly identified capnocytophaga canis following cat bites: c. canis is the third candidate along with c. canimorsus and c. cynodegmi causing zoonotic infection. | 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 analy ... | 2018 | 29093403 |