Pig trotters lung--novel domestic transmission of Pasteurella multocida.
Pasteurella multocida is a non-motile, faculatively-anaerobic, gram-negative bacillus associated with a spectrum of human disease. Direct and indirect zoonotic transmission is recognised with animal bites being most frequently encountered as a result of salivary colonisation in farm and domestic animals. Despite the prevalence of P. multocida in swine herds, the relationship between porcine colonisation and human disease is poorly established. This lesson reports a previously unrecognised mode of zoonotic transmission in respiratory pasteurellosis; domestic cooking of pig trotters.
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London. scotthenderson@nhs.net
Scott R
SR
Henderson
Anand
A
Shah
Kathleen B
KB
Banford
Luke S
LS
Howard
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010326:Pasteurella Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000635:transmission*; D016979:Pasteurella multocida / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018410:Pneumonia, Bacterial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000635:transmission*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D013552:Swine / Q000382:microbiology*; D015047:Zoonoses