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(a) Lips swelling and ulcerative oral mucositis with sloughing and necrosis on day +9 of neutropenia. (b) Colonial and microscopic findings of Capnocytophaga sputigena. Gray-colored non-hemolytic colonies on a blood agar plate after 48 h of incubation at 35  C with 5% CO2. (c) Thin, spindle-shaped, gram-negative bacilli from smear preparations of the blood agar plate (Gram stain, x100).
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On the 9th day of neutropenia, the patient developed grade III mucositis (Fig. 1) and 48 h later presented with temperature up to 38.5  C.