HUMAN INFECTION WITH PASTEURELLA LEPISEPTICA FOLLOWING A RABBIT BITE

Abstract

We wish to describe an example of human infection with Pasteurella lepiseptica. The reason for making the report is that few such cases have been described and in this instance the source of infection was believed to be a rabbit. In 1938 Lévy-Bruhl¹reviewed the literature in a discussion of pasteurellosis in man. Subsequent reports are as follows: Foerster²found an organism with the properties of animal pasteurella in the pleural exudate and in the lungs in 2 cases of pneumonia; Mulder³repeatedly isolated the organism from the sputum of a child with bronchiectasis; Plette⁴cultured Pasteurella from the pleural fluid of a man with pleural and pericardial effusion and Le Chuiton, Bideau and Pennanéac'h⁵recovered a strain from the spinal fluid of a patient with meningitis following a skull fracture. <h3>REPORT OF CASE</h3><h3>History.—</h3> N. C., a white man aged 53, the caretaker