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in their editorial ' Topical Zoonoses ,1 aptly conclude 'there may soon be yet another bacterial zoonosis to add to the list of Acha and Szyfres '. A serious and often fatal zoonosis caused by an unusual and fastidious Gramnegative bacterium designated Dysgonic Fermenter type-2 (DF-2) has evoked much recent interest. 2-6 Dysgonic Fermenter type-2 is part of the normal bacterial flora of the oral cavities of canines. 7 Infection of human beings with this organism usually presents as a severe community-acquired septicaemia often culminating in disseminated intravascular coagulation. 4 Although it was previously thought to be a zoonosis affecting predominantly the immunocompromised, an increasing number of reports has described DF-2 as the cause of serious illness even in the immunocompetent. ~ The paucity of case reports of DF-2 infection from the United Kingdom ~, 5 probably implies underdiagnosis. Dysgonic Fermenter type-2 has special growth requirements and there is a need for clinical and microbiological vigilance in actively seeking cases of DF-2 sepsis. The lethal nature of this relatively 'new' zoonosis should bring DF-2 into prominence among a growing and formidable list.
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- Author
- Anja A.I. Kostiala; T. Honkanen
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; W. B. Saunders Co., Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0163-4453)
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)