“…Species of this bacterial genus are normal flora and important opportunistic pathogens of respiratory and genital tracks of animals and occasionally humans, particularly when immunocompromised (Harper et al, 2006). Of these, P. pneumotropica, a rodent pathogen, has been involved occasionally in human disease conditions such as septicemia (Jawetz, 1950;Frebourg et al, 2002) spinal cord abscess (Fernández-Fernández et al, 2011), endocarditis (Dan et al, 2005;Tirmizi et al, 2012), meningitis (Minton, 1990), peritonitis (Campos et al, 2000), osteomyelitis and arthritis (Gadberry et al, 1984) and pneumonia (Cuadrado-Gómez et al, 1995;Guillard et al, 2010).…”