Pasteurella multocida urinary tract infection with molecular evidence of zoonotic transmission

Clin Infect Dis. 2003 Feb 15;36(4):E58-60. doi: 10.1086/367649. Epub 2003 Jan 31.

Abstract

We describe a patient with a urinary tract infection (UTI) caused by Pasteurella multocida. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis revealed that the clinical isolate recovered from the patient was identical (100% band match) to P. multocida isolates recovered from the patient's cat, but the isolate differed from an isolate recovered from a visiting cat and from a laboratory control strain. The patient also had abnormal urologic anatomy secondary to surgery; this has also been associated with P. multocida UTI.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Carrier State
  • Cats / microbiology*
  • Disease Transmission, Infectious
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Pasteurella Infections / physiopathology
  • Pasteurella Infections / transmission*
  • Pasteurella multocida / isolation & purification*
  • Urinary Tract Infections / microbiology
  • Urinary Tract Infections / physiopathology
  • Urinary Tract Infections / transmission*