Fatal Lower Respiratory Tract Infection Following a Dog Bite in a Cirrhotic Patient: A Case Report of Zoonotic Sepsis
Athanasia Aidonopoulou, Konstantinos Katsos, Dimitrios Vlachodimitropoulos, Artemis A Dona, Emmanouil I Sakelliadis · 2025
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Athanasia Aidonopoulou and co-authors report a fatal infection after a dog bite in a woman with liver disease, in work from 2025. Dog bites can seed germs that healthy bodies shrug off. A scarred liver weakens immune defense, so a neglected bite can turn deadly.
The 66-year-old woman lived in poor housing and had a history of heavy drinking. A bite to her left arm about twenty days before death went untreated. She sought no care and took no antibiotics in that span. Autopsy found a chest infection that grew from the arm wound infection. The infection spread through her body as sepsis. The case warns clinicians to treat bites in liver patients as emergencies.
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| CREATOR | Athanasia Aidonopoulou, Konstantinos Katsos, Dimitrios Vlachodimitropoulos, Artemis A Dona, Emmanouil I Sakelliadis |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |