Pasteurella multocida Infection Presented With Frequent Diarrhea in the Cirrhotic Patient

Abstract

A 49-year-old woman with alcoholic cirrhosis who owned a pet cat was brought to the hospital with frequent diarrhea every 30 min for two days. She was treated intensively for septic shock; however, she died on the third day. Pasteurella multocida is known to cause soft tissue infections; however, in immunocompromised individuals, it can cause severe invasive infections. Physicians should consider P. multocida infection when a patient with liver cirrhosis presents in shock following symptoms of enteritis. Clinical decisions should be made considering that this infection is associated with a high mortality rate and rapid deterioration.

Pasteurella Multocida Infection in Humans

“…These included diabetes, cirrhosis, renal insufficiency, gout arthritis, Cushing's syndrome, hypertension, dyslipidemia, hypothyroidism, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, immunodeficiencies, obstructive sleep apnea, and morbid obesity. An unfavorable factor in the course of the disease was the older age of the patients; some of them died [22,[62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69].…”