Life-threatening respiratory pasteurellosis associated with palliative pet care.

Life-threatening respiratory pasteurellosis associated with palliative pet care.

Myers Emily M; Ward Sarah L; Myers Joseph P

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America

2012

2012-03

Pasteurella multocida is a zoonotic Gram-negative cocco-bacillus often associated with soft tissue infections due to dog and cat bites. Here we report 3 patients who developed life-threatening P. multocida respiratory tract infections after providing palliative care to their dying pets.

*Pasteurella multocida; Aged; Animals; Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use; Cats; Dogs; Female; Humans; Middle Aged; Pasteurella Infections/drug therapy/microbiology/*transmission; Pets/*microbiology; Respiratory Tract Infections/diagnosis/drug therapy/*microbiology; Zoonoses/microbiology/*transmission

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