Septic Arthritis and Bacteremia Due to Infection by Pasteurella canis

Pasteurella canis is a Gram-negative coccobacilli from the Pasteurellaceae family. The most common form of transmission to humans is a bite from a dog or a cat. We report a case of a 90-year-old woman who presented with septic arthritis in the right knee and bacteremia two weeks after a cat bite. Th...

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Autores principales: Nascimento, Bruna, Garrido Gomes, Ana, Nunes Coelho, Carolina, Guisado, Marta, Bindean, Ramona-Diana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8664356/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34912619
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19478
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author Nascimento, Bruna
Garrido Gomes, Ana
Nunes Coelho, Carolina
Guisado, Marta
Bindean, Ramona-Diana
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Garrido Gomes, Ana
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description Pasteurella canis is a Gram-negative coccobacilli from the Pasteurellaceae family. The most common form of transmission to humans is a bite from a dog or a cat. We report a case of a 90-year-old woman who presented with septic arthritis in the right knee and bacteremia two weeks after a cat bite. The patient was treated with arthrocentesis and directed antimicrobial therapy. Human Pasteurella canis infection is a rare occurrence, making this a case of note.
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spelling pubmed-86643562021-12-14 Septic Arthritis and Bacteremia Due to Infection by Pasteurella canis Nascimento, Bruna Garrido Gomes, Ana Nunes Coelho, Carolina Guisado, Marta Bindean, Ramona-Diana Cureus Internal Medicine Pasteurella canis is a Gram-negative coccobacilli from the Pasteurellaceae family. The most common form of transmission to humans is a bite from a dog or a cat. We report a case of a 90-year-old woman who presented with septic arthritis in the right knee and bacteremia two weeks after a cat bite. The patient was treated with arthrocentesis and directed antimicrobial therapy. Human Pasteurella canis infection is a rare occurrence, making this a case of note. Cureus 2021-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8664356/ /pubmed/34912619 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19478 Text en Copyright © 2021, Nascimento et al. https://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.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Nascimento, Bruna
Garrido Gomes, Ana
Nunes Coelho, Carolina
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title Septic Arthritis and Bacteremia Due to Infection by Pasteurella canis
title_full Septic Arthritis and Bacteremia Due to Infection by Pasteurella canis
title_fullStr Septic Arthritis and Bacteremia Due to Infection by Pasteurella canis
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title_short Septic Arthritis and Bacteremia Due to Infection by Pasteurella canis
title_sort septic arthritis and bacteremia due to infection by pasteurella canis
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8664356/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34912619
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19478
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