PASTEURELLA CABALLI INFECTION FOLLOWING A HORSE BITE

Authors
ESCANDE F VALLEE E AUBART F
Citation
F. Escande et al., PASTEURELLA CABALLI INFECTION FOLLOWING A HORSE BITE, Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie, 285(3), 1997, pp. 440-444
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,Virology
Journal title
Zentralblatt fur Bakteriologie → ACNP
ISSN journal
09348840
Volume
285
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
440 - 444
Database
ISI
SICI code
0934-8840(1997)285:3<440:PCIFAH>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
The isolation of Pastettrella caballi from an horse-bite wound in a 56 -year-old man is reported. Biochemical characteristics are described a nd compared with the other species representing the genus Pasteurella. This strain probably represents the first human isolate of P. caballi in France.