Pasteurellosis - Pigs

• Pasteurella multocida can cause a severe acute fibrinous bronchopneumonia in pigs
• The most significant disease here is that caused by P. multocida secondary to underlying mycoplasma pneumonia, see above enzootic pneumonia of pigs
  • This results in chronic suppurative bronchopneumonia with abscessation and pleuritis
• If there is considerable pleural involvement, it may be indistinguishable from lesions caused by Haemophilus pleuropneumonia (below)
• Also isolated from cases of meningitis and septicaemia in piglets