TY - JOUR T1 - CEllulitis and sepsis due to sphingobacterium AU - Marinella MA Y1 - 2002/10/23 N1 - 10.1001/jama.288.16.1981 JO - JAMA SP - 1985 EP - 1985 VL - 288 IS - 16 N2 - To the Editor: Cellulitis-associated sepsis is usually due to gram-positive organisms such as group A streptococci or Staphylococcus aureus. This report describes the case of an elderly man with cellulitis and sepsis due to Sphingobacterium spiritivorum the patient most likely acquired from walking barefoot in his back yard. SN - 0098-7484 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.288.16.1981 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.288.16.1981 ER -