Pasteurella multocida bacteremia associated with peritonitis and cirrhosis.

Abstract

Pasteurella multocida has been the etiologic agent in at least three cases of "spontaneous" bacterial peritonitis (SBP). We report another patient with P. multocida bacteremia and SBP and suggest that there may be more than a chance association between cirrhotic liver disease and this unusual organism which rarely causes sepsis in man.