Abstract:Pasteurella pneumotropica is an opportunistic and zoonotic pathogen. It mainly infects rodents, especially immunodeficient or immunosuppressied animals, and causes inflammation and abscesses. It is one of the highest positive rate infection pathogens in laboratory animals. The contamination and asymptomatic infections of Infection of P.pneumotropica could significantly interfere in vary experiments. This review will deal with P.pneumotropica epidemiology, detection and identification methods, molecular typing and control and so on.