In simple words: Pasteurellosis is an infection you can get from animal bites or scratches, usually from cats and dogs. It can cause skin infections, fever, and body aches.

Pasteurellosis, resulting from infection with Pasteurella species bacteria, is typically spread to humans by contact with animals, particularly cats and dogs.Symptoms can include skin wounds and abscesses, joint pain, fever, chills, soft tissue pain, and respiratory or eye infections. Diagnosis involves laboratory testing, and treatment includes wound care, antibiotics, rest, and isolation.

Example 1: A child is bitten by a cat and develops a localized skin infection with redness, swelling, and pain at the bite site, diagnosed as pasteurellosis., An adult with a weakened immune system develops a severe systemic infection (sepsis) after being scratched by a dog, with cultures identifying Pasteurella multocida., A farmer develops respiratory symptoms and pneumonia after inhaling dust contaminated with Pasteurella bacteria from infected livestock.

Documentation should include details of the animal contact (bite, scratch, etc.), the location and characteristics of the infection, laboratory results confirming Pasteurella, and treatment provided.