The cat bit a resident of the UK and he contracted an unknown infection (3 photos)

Oh, how many wonderful discoveries Kus is preparing for us.





48-year-old man did not share something with a street cat, woolen went on the offensive and desperately bit the obsessive citizen. Through for a couple of hours, the wounds on the man’s hands were so swollen that he had to urgently go to the nearest hospital. Doctors examined the poor fellow, the wounds washed, an injection of tetanus was made and the victim was released in peace for all four sides. But what was their surprise when the next day he returned with a fever and swelling of his hands.



Clinically significant areas of Globicatella infection in a patient with a soft tissue infection following a cat bite.

Inflamed areas of skin at the site of bites had to be removed and inject three kinds of serious antibiotics. But the most interesting thing was after when the doctors took the biopsy. An unknown was found in the wounds science bacterium, vaguely similar to streptococcus. New bacterium belongs to a genus of Gram-positive bacteria called Globicatella, which differs from related strains, it is believed to be a “special and previously undescribed species”.

"We have received partial data on the 16S gene sequence rRNA after block PCR as described. These data did not match one named species in the GenBank database," the journal reported Emerging Infectious Diseases.



As a result, scientists thought for a long, long time, as much as 2 years, and came to the conclusion that wool, especially stray ones, are "reservoirs of yet undiscovered species of bacteria that have pathogenic potential for humans." A man was bitten in 2020, and an article with research results was published literally 5 days ago.

So, friends, once again you should not piss off the cats!