Title: Rapid Diagnosis of Capnocytophaga canimorsus Septic Shock in an Immunocompetent Individual Using Real-Time Nanopore Sequencing Authors & affiliations

We present a case of Capnocytophaga canimorsus septic shock after a dog bite in an immunocompetent individual, where real-time nanopore metagenomic sequencing characterized the microbial agent within 19 hours, with subsequent confirmation using droplet digital PCR. Oral swabs from the dog demonstrated a nearly-identical C. canimorsus isolate by sequencing. Preprints (www.preprints.org) | NOT PEER-REVIEWED | Posted: 16 November 2018 doi:10.20944/preprints201811.0395.v1 © 2018 by the author(s). Distributed under a Creative Commons CC BY license. 2 Corresponding author details Seweryn Bialasiewicz Centre for Children’s Health Research, Lv. 8 62 Graham St. South Brisbane, QLD 4101 Australia P: +61 7 3069 7206 e: seweryn@uq.edu.au Alternate corresponding author details