Pasteurella multocida urinary tract infection.

Most Pasteurella multocida infections in humans have been associated with animal bites or scratches. While a variety of infections involving P multocida, unassociated with animal trauma, have been described, infections of the urinary tract are rare. We studied a case in which P multocida was isolated from the urine of a woman with advanced uterine cervical cancer. In most of the cases in which P multocida has been isolated from urine, the patients have had anatomic defects of the urinary tract, as well as an underlying chronic illness. These host-related characteristics appear to be important in the pathogenesis of P multocida urinary tract infection.