Penicillin in Surgical Treatment of Pasteurella Sinusitis

Local Infection withPasteurella septicaAfter a Dog Bite

“…All these strains were similar in morphology and cultural characteristics to the one now reported (now referred to as strain ER) with the exception of that of Bartley and Hunter (1947). These workers describe growth on MacConkey medium, a finding not confirmed by any other worker.…”

“…Since this date human infections in Great Britain have been recorded by Bartley and Hunter (1947), sinusitis; Brunsdon and Mallett (1953), dog bite; Pizey (1953), multiple arthritis in an infant; and Cawson and Talbot (1955), bronchiectasis. Bezjak and Mimica (1952) report two cases of upper respiratory tract infection from Jugoslavia, and refer to three other recent European reports.…”

“…Both strains described by these authors were of the avian type, but they proved nonpathogenic for pigeons and only one of their patients gave a history of contact with birds. Strains have been described from human infections which fermented neither of these sugars (ER, NCTC 8771, Cooper and Moore, 1945) while others fermented both (Bartley and Hunter, 1947). Of the strains recorded in Table I, not all the data are available, but by the classification of Rosenbusch and Merchant NCTC 8489, strains " Allin " and " Cawson and Talbot " fall into Group 2, and NCTC 8771, ER, "Ludlam" and "Cooper and Moore " are abnormal.…”

“…Both strains described by these authors were of the avian type, but they proved nonpathogenic for pigeons and only one of their patients gave a history of contact with birds. Strains have been described from human infections which fermented neither of these sugars (ER, NCTC 8771, Cooper and Moore, 1945) while others fermented both (Bartley and Hunter, 1947 …”

The Occurrence of Pasteurella septica (syn. Multocida) in Bronchiectasis

“…septica from wounds (Allott, Cruickshank, Cyrlas-Williams, Glass, Meyer, Straker, and Tee, 1944;Cooper and Moore, 1945;Brunsdon and Mallett, 1953) and from other situations in the human body, such as the appendix (Ludlam, 1944) and joint spaces (Pizey, 1953), but with the exception of the case of sinusitis reported by Bartley and Hunter (1947) the occurrence of this organism in the respiratory tract has not previously been described in this country.…”