Bacteremia Due to Pasteurella dagmatisAcquired from a Dog Bite, with a Review of Systemic Infections and Challenges in Laboratory Identification

A case of bacteremia in a 74-year-old man, which was caused by Pasteurella dagmatis and complicated by thrombocytopenia, is presented. Microorganism identification was performed by the provincial reference laboratory using traditional biochemical profiling, completmented with both the sequencing of...

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Main Authors: Jianhui Xiong, Sigmund Krajden, Julianne V Kus, Prasad Rawte, John Blondal, Mark Downing, Urszula Zurawska, William Chapman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2015-01-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/946812