Systematic Veterinary Bacteriology and Mycology

HISTORY AND HABITAT

History

• The first significant report of the P.multocida was made by Bollinger (1878) and Perroncito (1878) and it was extensively investigated in 1880 by Pasteur as the cause of Fowl cholera.
• The P.haemolytica was isolated from disease of calves and sheep by Jones (1921).
• The name Pasteurellacea was proposed by Mannheim (1981).

Habitat

• Pasteurella organisms are world wide in distribution with a wide spectrum of hosts.
• They infect practically all domesticated and many wild animals and birds.
• They occur as commensals in the mucous membrane of the Upper respiratory and intestinal tract of animals.