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An Ohio woman was hospitalized for more than 80 days after a dog licked her with a serious bacterial infection.
The last thing Marie Trainer remembers is lying on her couch at home because she was nauseous.
Ten days later, she woke up from a medical coma, her arms and legs partially amputated.
The trainer contracted the capnocytophaga – a bacterium that is commonly found in dog saliva and can be transmitted by a bite or, in the case of the trainer, a lick.
Her husband and she have two dogs at home and the doctors think that one of them licked them a small scratch to the arm causing the life – threatening infection, reports KTLA.
"This body is very virulent," said Dr. Margaret Kobe, medical director of infectious diseases at Aultman Hospital.
"It has the ability to make your immune system do horrible things," she told KTLA.
Capnocytophaga caused coagulation of the trainer's blood, which restricted blood flow and caused necrosis and gangrene.
Without amputation, she would be dead.
The severity of the trainer's infection is rare and affects one in a million people.
She says that despite her trauma, she will not get rid of her dogs.
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