A catastrophic event caused by pasteurella multocida in an alcoholic cirrhotic patient

Pasteurella multocida is a gram negative cocco- bacillus that is a zoonotic agent of human disease. It is present in the nasopharynx of cats and dogs. It may cause serious soft tissue infections, less commonly it may cause sepsis or septic shock presenting with disseminat- ed intravascular coagulation and acute renal failure. Invasive forms of pasteurella infection more frequently occur in immuncompromised patients (1,3). We report a case of rapidly proceeding lethal septicemia due to infection with P. multocida in a woman with alcoholic liver cirrhosis.