Case Report
Why Asplenic Patients Should Not Take Care of the Neighbour’s Dog? A Fatal Course of Capnocytophaga canimorsus Sepsis
Table 1
The most common symptoms of an infection with C. canimorsus.
| Symptoms | Frequency (%) |
| Fever | 37–92 | Abdominal pain/diarrhoea | 21 | Nausea/vomiting | 18 | Headache | 18 | Muscle pain | <10 | Petechiae | 35 | DIC with fulminant sepsis | 13–38 | Necrosis/gangrene | 10 | Endocarditis | 7–15 |
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