Seal Finger in Canada

A recent case of “seal finger” in Canada complements an increasing number of zoonotic bacterial diseases associated with animal bites. The following list is extracted from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com (primary references available on request) :   Bacteroides pyogenes  – case of bacteremia following a cat bite. Bacteroides tectus –  cat bites Bergeyella zoohelcum –  dog-bite infection Bisgaard’s taxon 16 –  animal bite wounds Canibacter oris –  dog-bite infection Capnocytophaga canimorsus –  dog-bite infection Capnocytophaga cynodegmi –  dog-bite infection Corynebacterium canis –  dog-bite infection Corynebacterium freiburgense  – recovered from a dog-bite Corynebacterium kutscheri  – implicated in cases of animal-bite infection CDC NO-1 –  dog- and cat-bite wounds Dietzia cinnamea –  dog-bite infection Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae –  related to contact wih animals / fish or their products Frederiksenia canicola –  dog-bite infection Fusobacterium canifelinum –  animal-bite wounds Halomonas venusta –  fish-bite infection Kingella potus –  wound from a kinkajou Mannheimia glucosida –  infected lamb-bite Moraxella canis –  dog-bite infection Mycobacterium vulneris –  dog-bite infection Mycoplasma phocicerebrale –  seal-bite infection (“seal-finger”) Neisseria animaloris –  animal-bites Neisse...
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