Pasteurella multocida septicemia. Experience at a cancer hospital
A. A. Stein, M. A. Fialk, A. Blevins and D. Armstrong
Pasteurella multocida most commonly infects patients with animal contacts.
Life-threatening systemic disease is distinctly uncommon in otherwise
healthy persons and usually occurs in patients with chronic predisposing
disease. Two cases of sepsis occurred in a cancer hospital, and we surmise
that specific predisposing factors existed in our patients as in prior
reported cases of sepsis in patients without cancer. These factors include
animal contact, open wounds, and, most important, advanced hepatic disease.
