Pasteurella multocidaInfections in Man

Abstract

BECAUSE disease due to Pasteurella multocida is beingeing more frequently diagnosed in man, and because the treatment of such infection is somewhat unusual (penicillin for an infection due to a -ramnegative bacillus), we wish to report 2 cases and to prese t a brief re ofw of the literature on this subject.In 1878 Kitt first isolated a bacte ium of the pasteurella group during an epidemic disease among wild hogs, and two years later, Pasteur described the organism that causes fowl cholera. Subsequently, bacteria indistinguishable culturally from those causing fowl cholera were found in rabbit septicemia, swine plague and . . .