| pasteurella multocida | A species of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria normally found in the flora of the mouth and respiratory tract of animals and birds. It causes shipping fever (see pasteurellosis, pneumonic), haemorrhagic bacteraemia, and intestinal disease in animals. In humans, disease usually arises from a wound infection following a bite or scratch from domesticated animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Pasteurella novicida | A species pathogenic for white mice, guinea pigs, and hamsters; it produces lesions in experimental animals similar to those found in cases of tularaemia; it is not known to infect humans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pasteurella pestis | The bacterial cause of the bubonic plague which in the year 541 (as the black death) and later in the middle ages decimated europe. The effects of the plague are described in the nursery rhyme we all fall down. It is transmitted to humans by the bite of fleas that have fed on infected animals, mostly rodents. Plague occurs in the u.s. It is treatable with antibiotics but, if not treated promptly, can promptly lead to death. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Pasteurella pfaffii | A species found in an epidemic of septicaemia in canaries where it caused a necrotic enteritis; pathogenic for canaries, sparrows, pigeons, white mice, guinea pigs, and rabbits; not pathogenic for chickens. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis | A human and animal pathogen causing mesenteric lymphadenitis, diarrhoea, and bacteraemia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| Pasteurella septicaemiae | A species which causes fatal septicaemia in young geese. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Pasteurella tularensis | The aetiologic agent of tularaemia in man and other warm-blooded animals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pasteurellaceae | <bacteria> A family of coccoid to rod-shaped nonsporeforming, gram-negative, nonmotile, facultatively anaerobic bacteria that consists of three genera - actinobacillus, haemophilus, and pasteurella. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pasteurellaceae infections | Infections with bacteria of the family pasteurellaceae. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pasteurellosis | Infection with bacteria of the genus Pasteurella. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pasteurellosis, pneumonic | Bovine respiratory disease found in animals that have been shipped or exposed to cattle recently transported. It is thought to be caused by infection with the bovine parainfluenza virus 3 (see paramyxovirus) or one of several other respiratory viruses, followed by infection with either pasteurella multocida or pasteurella haemolytica. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pasteurisation | <technique> A method of preserving food by heating it to a certain point which will kill off pathogenic organisms but will not harm the flavour or quality of the food, this technique is mostly used with beer, milk, fruit juices, cheeses and egg products. (09 Oct 1997) |
| pasteurise | To treat by pasteurization. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pasteuriser | An apparatus used in pasteurization. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pasteurism | 1. A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength. 2. Pasteurization. Origin: Fr. Pasteur, a French scientist. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |