Pasteurella (redirected from Pasteurella granulomatis)

Pasteurella /Pas·teur·el·la/ (pas?ter-el´ah) a genus of gram-negative bacteria (family Pasteurellaceae), including P. multo´cida, the etiologic agent of the hemorrhagic septicemias.

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Pas·teu·rel·la (psch-rl, pst-)

n.

A genus of aerobic to facultatively anaerobic, nonmotile bacteria of the family Pastuerellaceae containing small gram-negative rods; they are parasites of humans and other animals.

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Pasteurella

a genus of gram-negative facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria.

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Pasteurella aerogenes

found in pigs. A cause of wound infections from pig bites.

Pasteurella anatipestifer

see Riemerellaanatipestifer.

Pasteurella anatis

see Gallibacterium anatis.

Pasteurella avium

see Avibacterium avium.

Pasteurella caballi

causes respiratory infections in horses.

Pasteurella canis

commensal in dogs. Can cause bite wound infections and also pneumonia in cattle and sheep.

Pasteurella dagmatis

commensal of dogs and cats. Cause of bite wound infections.

Pasteurella gallinarum

see Avibacterium gallinarum.

Pasteurella granulomatis

see Mannheimiagranulomatis.

Pasteurella haemolytica biotype A

now called Mannheimiahaemolytica and M. glucosida.

Pasteurella haemolytica biotype T

see P. trehalosi (below).

Pasteurella langaaensis

a commensal of birds

Pasteurella lymphangitidis

a cause of lymphangitis in cattle.

Pasteurella mairii

a cause of abortion in sows.

Pasteurella multocida (syn. Pasteurella septica) types A, B, D, E, F

the cause of hemorrhagic septicemia in cattle, sheep and pigs, fowl cholera of birds, pasteurellosis of rabbits, and gangrenous mastitis of ewes. It is also commonly found in atrophic rhinitis of pigs. Divided into three subspecies, gallicida, multocida and septica, but these do not appear to have any host species predilection.

Pasteurella pestis

see yersiniapestis.

Pasteurella piscicida

causes pasteurellosis in a range of marine warm water species especially in the Mediterranean and Japan.

Pasteurella pneumotropica, Pasteurella stomatis

recovered from dogs, cats and rodents and may be involved in infected bite wounds. P. pneumotropica also causes pneumonia and abscesses in rodents.

Pasteurella salpingitidis

see actinobacillussalpingitidis.

Pasteurella skyensis

cause of mortalities in farmed Atlantic salmon.

Pasteurella species A

cause of sinusitis and conjunctivitis in birds.

Pasteurella species B

cause of wound infections. Possibly a commensal of dogs and cats.

Pasteurella stomatis

commensal in dogs and cats, but can cause bronchitis in dogs and wound infections.

Pasteurella testudinis

associated with respiratory disease in tortoises.

Pasteurella trehalosa

(P. haemolytica biotype T) cause of septicemic disease in weaned sheep.

Pasteurella trehalosi

cause of septicemic pasteurellosis in older lambs, goats and pigs. Previously called P. haemolytica biotype T.

Pasteurella tularensis

see francisellatularensis.

Pasteurella volantium

recovered from chickens. See Avibacterium volantium.