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Disseminated intravascular coagulation with Fusobacterium necrophorum septicaemia
M N Potter1, H C Drysdale, P A Price
1Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon, UK.
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|February 1, 1988
Abstract:
A 23 year old woman died within six hours of admission from acute disseminated intravascular coagulation. Fusobacterium necrophorum, a Gram negative anaerobic organism, was isolated as a single pathogen from the blood cultures. This association has not previously been reported.