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Pasteurella multocida Bacteremia in an Immunocompromised Patient After Multiple Cat Scratches

Pasteurella multocida (P. multocida) is a zoonotic organism found in the normal flora of domestic and wild animals. In this case report, we present a 70-year-old Caucasian male who presented with fever, chills, and greenish sputum which began hours prior to presentation. His symptoms were initially...

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Autores principales: Boadu, Charles, Hernandez, Andrea, Zeidan, Bassem, Young, Jordan T, Frunzi, Johnathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7916639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33654617
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12938
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author Boadu, Charles
Hernandez, Andrea
Zeidan, Bassem
Young, Jordan T
Frunzi, Johnathan
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description Pasteurella multocida (P. multocida) is a zoonotic organism found in the normal flora of domestic and wild animals. In this case report, we present a 70-year-old Caucasian male who presented with fever, chills, and greenish sputum which began hours prior to presentation. His symptoms were initially thought to be due to refractory pneumonia because the patient had been discharged from our hospital three weeks prior to presentation. Blood cultures grew P. multocida, a rare pathogen to cause bacteremia. He was treated with cefepime and later amoxicillin/clavulanic acid and made an uneventful recovery. Later history of the patient’s cats scratching him was thought to be the mode of transmission. P. multocida infection is rare, and can also be dangerous and even fatal in immunocompromised individuals. Clinicians must therefore operate with a high degree of suspicion especially when treating immunocompromised patients with bacteremia.
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spelling pubmed-79166392021-03-01 Pasteurella multocida Bacteremia in an Immunocompromised Patient After Multiple Cat Scratches Boadu, Charles Hernandez, Andrea Zeidan, Bassem Young, Jordan T Frunzi, Johnathan Cureus Internal Medicine Pasteurella multocida (P. multocida) is a zoonotic organism found in the normal flora of domestic and wild animals. In this case report, we present a 70-year-old Caucasian male who presented with fever, chills, and greenish sputum which began hours prior to presentation. His symptoms were initially thought to be due to refractory pneumonia because the patient had been discharged from our hospital three weeks prior to presentation. Blood cultures grew P. multocida, a rare pathogen to cause bacteremia. He was treated with cefepime and later amoxicillin/clavulanic acid and made an uneventful recovery. Later history of the patient’s cats scratching him was thought to be the mode of transmission. P. multocida infection is rare, and can also be dangerous and even fatal in immunocompromised individuals. Clinicians must therefore operate with a high degree of suspicion especially when treating immunocompromised patients with bacteremia. Cureus 2021-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7916639/ /pubmed/33654617 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12938 Text en Copyright © 2021, Boadu et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Boadu, Charles
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Zeidan, Bassem
Young, Jordan T
Frunzi, Johnathan
Pasteurella multocida Bacteremia in an Immunocompromised Patient After Multiple Cat Scratches
title Pasteurella multocida Bacteremia in an Immunocompromised Patient After Multiple Cat Scratches
title_full Pasteurella multocida Bacteremia in an Immunocompromised Patient After Multiple Cat Scratches
title_fullStr Pasteurella multocida Bacteremia in an Immunocompromised Patient After Multiple Cat Scratches
title_full_unstemmed Pasteurella multocida Bacteremia in an Immunocompromised Patient After Multiple Cat Scratches
title_short Pasteurella multocida Bacteremia in an Immunocompromised Patient After Multiple Cat Scratches
title_sort pasteurella multocida bacteremia in an immunocompromised patient after multiple cat scratches
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7916639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33654617
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12938
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