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Case Reports
. 2012 Aug;50(8):2818-9.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.00973-12. Epub 2012 Jun 6.

Prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by a Pasteurella dagmatis-like isolate originating from a patient's cat

Carol Strahm  1 , Daniel Goldenberger, Marc Gutmann, Peter Kuhnert, Peter Graber
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Case Reports

Prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by a Pasteurella dagmatis-like isolate originating from a patient's cat

Carol Strahm et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Aug.

Abstract

Pasteurella species are part of the oral flora of cats and dogs. In humans, they are frequently found in infected animal bite wounds, but invasive infections are rare. This is the first report of prosthetic-valve endocarditis with a Pasteurella dagmatis-like species, which originated from the patient's cat.

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Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis after DNA digestion with XbaI, demonstrating identity of the Pasteurella dagmatis-like isolates from the human patient and the cat's oral cavity (two morphotypes). The independent P. dagmatis-like strain JF5098 and the Pasteurella pneumotropica type strain DSM 21403T were used as controls.
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