[ ˌpα:stərɛ'ləʊsɪs , ˌpastərɛ'ləʊsɪs ]
■ noun a bacterial infection commonly affecting animals and sometimes transferred to humans through bites and scratches.
Origin
early 20th cent.: from Fr. pasteurellose , from mod. L. Pasteurella genus name of the bacterium responsible (named after the 19th-cent. French chemist and bacteriologist Louis Pasteur ) + -osis .