pasteurella

[pas-tuh-rel-uh]

noun

Bacteriology.

plural

pasteurellae, pasteurellas 

1. any of several rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pasturella, certain species of which are parasitic and pathogenic for humans and animals.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pasteurella¹

< New Latin (1887), after L. Pasteur; -ella

Example Sentences

Bisgaard taxon 45 is related to another bacterium, called Pasteurella multocida, that can cause septicemia in cattle and was linked to the death of 200,000 endangered saiga antelope in Kazakhstan in 2015.

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Pasteurella bacteria have previously been implicated in sudden deaths of wild animals such as antelope, but a role in elephant deaths was not suspected prior to this study.

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One leading theory is that it was caused by a strain of a bacteria called pasteurella, which killed 200,000 Saiga antelope in Kazakhstan in 2015, says McCann.

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After excluding diet, light cycles and other environmental factors as being responsible for this difference, the authors compared the microbial profiles for the animals in the two facilities, and found that a virus called murine norovirus and the bacteria Helicobacter, Pasteurella pneumotropica and Tritrichomonas muris were more common at the Harvard facility than at the Broad facility.

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A bacterium called Pasteurella multocida, which had long lived in the animal without doing harm, suddenly turned virulent.

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