A Patient With Rheumatoid Arthritis Who Developed Pasteurella Multocida Arthritis Without Animal Contact; Case Report

Pasteurella species are immobile, non-sporeless, gram-negative coccobacilli that can be found in the respiratory tract and gastrointestinal flora of pets cause various infections with cat-dog bites. While it usually causes cellulitis abscesses, clinical pictures such as septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, pneumonia, endocarditis, sepsis meningitis also seen immunosuppressed patients. Here, a case arthritis due to multocida, which developed left shoulder joint 70-year-old female patient history rheumatoid diabetes mellitus, hypertension, without animal contact or trauma, is presented light literature.