# Pasteurella pneumotropica

National Cancer Institute

## Source

National Cancer Institute. *Pasteurella pneumotropica*. NCI Thesaurus. Code C86640.

A species of facultatively anaerobic, Gram-negative, coccobacillus shaped bacteria in the phylum Proteobacteria. This species is nonmotile, non-spore forming, not acid fast, catalase, oxidase, phosphatase, urease, ornithine decarboxylase, and indole positive, reduces nitrate, not beta-hemolytic, produces a strong odor, but does not hydrolyze esculin. P. pneumotropica was isolated from rodents and is pathogenic to humans.