A catastrophic event caused by pasteurella multocida in an alcoholic cirrhotic patient

Pasteurella multocida is a gram negative coccobacil- lus that is a zoonotic agent of human disease. It is pres- ent in the nasopharynx of cats and dogs. It may cause serious soft tissue infections, less commonly it may cause sepsis or septic shock presenting with disseminat- ed intravascular coagulation and acute renal failure. Invasive forms of pasteurella infection more frequently occur in immuncompromised patients (1,3). We report a case of rapidly proceeding lethal septicemia due to infection with P. multocida in a woman with alcoholic liver cirrhosis.