Vascular graft infection due to Pasteurella multocida

BACKGROUND: Vascular graft infections are infrequent complications with important morbidity and mortality rates. Pasteurella multocida, a Gram negative bacillus, is a normal oral commensal of many animals. For mankind, it is a pathogenous bacillus which is rarely implicated in vascular grafts. CASE REPORT: We report hereafter the fourth case introduced in the international literature about vascular graft infections caused by P. multocida. The patient was successfully treated with a combination of a surgical graft change and a 6 weeks bi-antibiotic therapy. DISCUSSION: There is fours case reported in litterature with quite different antibiotic drugs and duration. CONCLUSION: P. multicoda graft infection should be long with initial intravenous drug and mainteance traitement should not be required.