A Case of pasteurella multocida pleural empyema
| Autor: | Kyung Rak Sohn, Won Ho Kim, Do Yong Song, Dong Yeub Lee, Byung Chun Chung, Byung Ki Lee, Seung Min Baek, Hyang Eun Seo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Bronchiectasis biology business.industry animal diseases Pleural empyema Hemorrhagic septicemia respiratory system bacterial infections and mycoses medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Empyema Microbiology Infectious Diseases Coccobacillus otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Fowl cholera business Pasteurella multocida Pathogen |
| Zdroj: | Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases. 49:111 |
| ISSN: | 0378-0066 |
| DOI: | 10.4046/trd.2000.49.1.111 |
| Popis: | Pasteurella multocida, a Gram-negative coccobacillus, is part of the normal oral flora of many types of animals, including domestic dogs and cats. It is the etiologic agent of a variety of infectious diseases, such as hemorrhagic septicemia in cattle or fowl cholera in chicken. Although this is a primary pathogen in the animal world, infection due to Pasteurella multocida in man has been described with increasing frequency recently. The majority of individuals with Pasteurella multocida pulmonary infection possess some underlying pulmonary diseases, most commonly bronchiectasis or COPD. With a review of literature, We report a young man who developed the empyema caused by Pasteurella multocida. |
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