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Pasteurella Canis as a Cause of Septic Arthritis and Soft Tissue Infection after Sheep Bite: A Case Report

Journal: Global Journal of Medical and Clinical Case Reports (Vol.3, No. 1)

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Page : 012-014

Keywords : Sheep bite; Pasteurella canis; Septic arthritis;

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Abstract

Pasteurella spp is the first organisms to consider in any patient who presents with a soft tissue infection following cat or dog bites. Pasteurella canis is most common isolate of dog bites, but there are no reports of pastereulla canis infection caused by sheep bite. A case of a 66 years old farmer woman with symptoms of infected left hand with wrist septic arthritis, after a lamb bite is described (the sheep was sick after a dog bite).

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