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. 1988 Feb;64(748):155–156. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.64.748.155

Disseminated intravascular coagulation with Fusobacterium necrophorum septicaemia.

M N Potter 1, H C Drysdale 1, P A Price 1, A C Buck 1
PMCID: PMC2428813  PMID: 3174529

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.

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