PubMed · 10065440
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C M San Román, R Gómez-Huelgas. 1999-01-23. [Sepsis due to DF2].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10065440/
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We describe a premature infant with early cystic lung lesions and sepsis due to prenatally acquired Capnocytophaga infection. Early cystic lesions have not been described previously as a characteristic of this infection.
Capnocytophaga ochracea (C. ochracea), a known human microflora, has been reported to cause sepsis in immunocompromised patients and less severe infections such as intrauterine infections, endocarditis, peritonitis and septic arthritis in the immunocompetent patient. We present the first described case of C. ochracea causing severe sepsis and purpura fulminans in an immunocompetent host.
A woman with neutropenia developed gingival hyperplasia. Biopsy showed invasion of gingival tissue with mats of filamentous organisms, and molecular analysis by polymerase chain reaction and fluorescence in situ hybridization revealed Capnocytophaga sputigena, Leptotrichia species, and Fusobacterium nucleatum. Oral bacterial flora may cause invasive gingival disease with hyperplasia in immunocompromised patients.