What is Pasteurella multocida?
{{Taxobox | name = ''Pasteurella'' | image = PHIL 3621.tif | image_caption = Pasteurella multocida under a gram-stained photomicrograph | regnum = [[Bacterium|Bacteria]] | phylum = [[Proteobacteria]] | classis = Gamma Proteobacteria | ordo = [[Pasteurellales]] | familia = [[Pasteurellaceae]] | genus = '''''Pasteurella''''' | genus_authority = | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = '''''Pasteurella multocida'''''}} '''''Pasteurella multocida''''' is a [[gram-negative]], non-motile [[coccobacillus]] that is [[penicillin]]-sensitive. ''Pasteurella multocida'' often exists as a [[Commensalism|commensal]] in the upper [[Respiratory tract|respiratory tracts]] of many [[livestock]], [[poultry]], and domestic [[Pet|pets,]] especially cats and dogs. ''Pasteurella multocida'' was first found in 1878 in fowl [[cholera]]-infected birds. However, it was not [[wikt:isolated|isolated]] until 1880 by [[Louis Pasteur]], the man in whose honor ''[[Pasteurella]]'' is named. {{biology-stub}} [[category:Gram-negative bacteria]]