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A cat can infect another cat with Pasteurella multocida and other bacteria by a bite. The long teeth of the cat push these normal oral bacteria beneath the skin where they often cause an abscess, or pocket of pus. The cats originally get the Pasteurella in their mouths from the mother cat.

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