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
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