“…In livestock, mainly cattle and buffaloes, P. multocida is one of the common bacteria associated with an economically important production disease, bovine respiratory disease complex, and highly lethal hemorrhagic septicemia ( 1 , 2 ). There are several sporadic reports of P. multocida in wild animals, including spotted deer and leopards ( 3 – 6 ). Although several conventional and molecular typing methods, such as enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)/repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP)/randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) PCR, Southern blot hybridization, pulse field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) have been largely used in outbreak investigations, very few attempts have been made to sequence the whole genome of a P. multocida strain from wild animals ( 7 , 8 ).…”