Tsubasa Asaeda, Takashi Ueda, Yasuhiro Nozaki, Yasushi Murakami, Mika Morosawa, Hiroko Inaba, Hitoshi Ogashiwa, Miki Doi, Kazuhiko Nakajima, Manabu Shirakawa, Akifumi Nakamura, Naoto Ikeda, Yuya Sugiyama, Yoshihiro Wada, Takahiro Ito, Yoshio Takesue
Pasteurellosis is a common zoonotic infection that occurs after an animal bite or scratch (B/S). We compared the clinical features of six patients with non-B/S pasteurellosis with those of 14 patients with B/S infections. Pasteurella multocida was identified with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry in all six non-B/S infections, whereas 13 of the 14 B/S infections were identified with diagnostic kits. The non-B/S infections were pneumonia (n = 3), skin and soft tissue infections (n = 2), and bacteremia (n = 1)...
February 17, 2024: Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy: Official Journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy