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

Journal Volume 75 - 2012
Issue Fasc.1 - Letters
Author(s) A.Y. Tezer Tekçe, I.H. Kalkan, B. Mert Dinç, F.O. önder, D.ö. Etik, Burak Suvak, M. Akdoğan
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(1) Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, (2) Gastroenterology Department, (3) Clinical Microbiology, Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.

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.

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