Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 17-1999. A 42-year-old asplenic man with gram-negative sepsis

N Engl J Med. 1999 Jun 10;340(23):1819-26. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199906103402308.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Animals
  • Capnocytophaga / isolation & purification*
  • Dermatitis, Contact / etiology
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Dogs
  • Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / etiology
  • Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / microbiology*
  • Gram-Negative Bacterial Infections / transmission
  • Humans
  • Immunocompromised Host
  • Male
  • Sepsis / etiology
  • Sepsis / microbiology*
  • Shoes / adverse effects
  • Splenectomy