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Case Reports
. 2018 Aug;24(7):1377-1379.
doi: 10.3201/eid2407.171580.

Rat-Bite Fever in Human with Streptobacillus notomytis Infection, Japan

Yoshihiko Ogawa, Kei Kasahara, Sang-Tae Lee, Takamitsu Ito, Hideo Hasegawa, Sachie Hirose, Shigeru Santo, Atsushi Yoshida, Ryuichi Nakano, Hisakazu Yano, Keiichi Mikasa
Case Reports

Rat-Bite Fever in Human with Streptobacillus notomytis Infection, Japan

Yoshihiko Ogawa et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 Aug.

Abstract

We report a case of rat-bite fever in a 94-year-old woman with Streptobacillus notomytis infection. We established an epidemiologic link between exposure to rats and human infection by performing nested PCRs that detected S. notomytis in the intraoral swab specimens obtained from rats captured in the patient's house.

Keywords: 16S ribosomal RNA gene; Japan; Streptobacillus moniliformis; Streptobacillus notomytis; bacteria; rat-bite fever; streptococci; zoonoses.

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Gram staining of pus obtained from a patient with rat-bite fever. Circles indicate pyrophosphate calcium crystals. Arrows indicate chain-shaped gram-negative bacilli. Original magnification ×1,000.
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