| rat bite fever misdiagnosed as rocky mountain spotted fever. | a patient who had been exposed to ticks and who had also been bitten by a laboratory rat developed fever, headache, and a rash. he was treated with chloramphenicol for rocky mountain spotted fever, and recovered. blood cultures, however, grew streptobacillus moniliformis, a causative agent of rat bite fever. the case report illustrates the clinical similarities between rat bite fever and rocky mountain spotted fever. | 1979 | 441774 |
| streptobacillary pleuritis in a koala (phascolarctos cinereus). | a case of streptobacillus moniliformis pleuritis in a koala (phascolarctos cinereus) is reported. lesions were granulomatous in nature. s. moniliformis was recovered in pure culture, and found by experimental inoculation to be pathogenic for mice but not for a rat. | 1979 | 501842 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis isolations from cervical abscesses of guinea-pigs. | | 1976 | 790752 |
| splenic abscess. report of 10 cases and review of the literature. | ten cases of splenic abscess seen between 1964 and 1974 are reviewed. pain referable to the abscess was the most common symptom, but was present in only five cases. fever was present in all but one case. tenderness in the region of the spleen was noted in six cases, in three cases the spleen was palpable and in one case a large mass in the upper left quadrant of the abdomen was palpated. abdominal films were suggestive of the diagnosis in two cases, and the liver-spleen scan demonstrated a defec ... | 1976 | 973645 |
| cardiobacterium homonis endocarditis. characterization of the unusual organisms and review of the literature. | a case of subacute bacterial endocarditis in which cardiobacterium hominis was isolated from the blood of a 55-year old woman who had rheumatic heart disease is reported. a survey of the literature revealed very few reports in which this organism has been implicated in human lesions. the colonies grew after 48 hours of incubation in a candle jar. they were small, convex, nonhemolytic, and oxidase-positive. the indole reaction was positive, the catalase and nitrate reactions were negative, and ac ... | 1975 | 1089355 |
| microbial flora of the larynx, trachea, and large intestine of the rat after long-term inhalation of 100 per cent oxygen. | effects of long-term inhalation of 100 per cent oxygen on the microbial flora of the rat larynx, trachea, and large intestine were studies. rats were kept 14 days in an atmosphere of 100 per cent oxygen after being conditioned to high oxygen concentrations by exposure to three cycles of 100 per cent oxygen (two days) alternating with 40 percent oxygen (two days). controls were kept under similar conditions in normal atmosphere. rats were sacrificed, and at necropsy laryngotracheal swabs and feca ... | 1976 | 1259185 |
| rat bite fever in a greek child. | rat bite fever was diagnosed in a 10-year-old boy in a rural area of south-west greece. the clinical presentation was typical for this disease and the relevant causative agent (streptobacillus moniliformis) was isolated from blood cultures of the febrile patient. erythromycin treatment was efficient. although extremely rare in continental europe, this infection must be taken into account as a potential hazard of a rat bite. | 1992 | 1411320 |
| rat bite fever (streptobacillus moniliformis) with septicemia in a child. | a 5-year-old girl was admitted to hospital with fever, headache and nausea. her c-reactive protein raised from less than 11 mg/l to 65 mg/l and she developed a maculopapular, petechial rash, especially pronounced on the soles and palms. after incubation for 3 days, streptobacillus moniliformis was found in all blood cultures that had been taken. some weeks before her admission, the girl had been playing with her grandmother's pet rats, which later had died from an unknown disease. there was no h ... | 1992 | 1411321 |
| isolation of streptobacillus moniliformis from a guinea pig with granulomatous pneumonia. | | 1992 | 1460856 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis isolated from otitis media of conventionally kept laboratory rats. | streptobacillus moniliformis (sm) was isolated from the middle ear of two inbred albino rats (strain cap/kuv) suffering from murine respiratory mycoplasmosis and purulent bilateral otitis media. the animals were kept under conventional conditions and used for immunological studies. the biochemical pattern of the isolate was identical with that of four other sm strains of different origin but differed in its ability to lyse erythrocytes in sheep blood agar. this is the first sm strain with hemoly ... | 1992 | 1534999 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis endocarditis: case report and review. | a 46-year-old man with rat-bite fever due to streptobacillus moniliformis that was complicated by endocarditis is reported. other unusual features of this case include septic arthritis with prominent involvement of the sternoclavicular joint and the absence of a rash. sixteen cases of streptobacillary endocarditis have previously been described. this condition occurs most often in the setting of previously damaged heart valves, usually as a result of rheumatic heart disease. echocardiography dem ... | 1992 | 1562665 |
| rat bite fever without the bite. | the case is reported of a patient who developed an acute arthropathy, which was initially diagnosed as acute septic arthritis. the true diagnosis of rat bite fever due to streptobacillus moniliformis was delayed because of difficulty in growing the organism, which has fastidious growth requirements. the patient had no history of rat bite, which is the usual form of transmission of this disease. | 1992 | 1575596 |
| isolation of streptobacillus moniliformis from the middle ear of rats. | streptobacillus moniliformis was isolated from the middle ear of 9 of 16 rats used for otological studies. examination of rat sera for the presence of anti-streptobacillus moniliformis antibodies using an elisa technique resulted in 15 seropositive animals. the source of the s. moniliformis infection was not determined. | 1991 | 1826334 |
| [acute purulent polyarthritis induced by streptobacillus moniliformis]. | | 1991 | 1835055 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis epizootic in barrier-maintained c57bl/6j mice and susceptibility to infection of different strains of mice. | we report a streptobacillus moniliformis epizootic in barrier-maintained spf mice. although various inbred and f1 hybrid strains of mice have been kept in this animal facility, only c57bl/6j han [corrected] mice showed clinical signs of disease. during the course of the epizootic, 825 breeding animals (approximately 36% of the breeders) died or had to be killed because of severe clinical signs. although sequential treatment with ampicillin and chlortetracycline gave good therapeutic results, the ... | 1990 | 2172624 |
| [arthritis caused by streptobacillus moniliformis: a case of fever induced by a rat bite]. | a 54-year-old female had fever with chills, polyarthritis and diffuse rash. anamnesis led to the suspicion of rat-bite fever. the etiology was confirmed when and organism which was identified as streptobacillus moniliformis was isolated from articular fluid by means of gas chromatography of tissue fatty acids. in our opinion, this is the first case of that condition reported in this country. we review the literature, and we insist on the need to inform the microbiologist of the clinical suspicio ... | 1990 | 2192206 |
| [pathological changes in streptobacillus moniliformis infection of c57bl/6j mice]. | an epizootic disease caused by streptobacillus moniliformis occurred in c57bl/6j mice. pathological lesions included abscessation of lymph nodes and chronic polyarthritis and osteomyelitis. histological features of the disease are described. the most important differential diagnosis, infectious ectromelia of mice, is discussed. | 1990 | 2317186 |
| scanning and transmission electron microscopic observations of bacteria adhering to ileal epithelial cells in growing broiler and white leghorn chickens. | 1. bacteria adhering to the ileal epithelial cells in broiler and white leghorn (wl) chickens aged 1 to 60 d were observed with scanning (sem) and transmission (tem) electron microscopes. 2. in sem observations, bacteria were not found on day 1 after hatching in either breed. in 10-d-old broilers many bacteria were observed around the apical area of villi. the number decreased with age and disappeared by 50 d. in wl chicks, the bacteria were first observed at 20 d. numbers were much fewer than i ... | 1990 | 2354369 |
| fatal streptobacillus moniliformis infection in a two-month-old infant. | streptobacillus moniliformis is an uncommon human pathogen contracted from exposure to rodents. it usually produces a mild, protracted illness (rat-bite fever, haverhill fever, erythema arthriticum epidemicum) that has either a favorable response to antibiotic therapy or spontaneously resolves. this report describes a fatal case of streptobacillus moniliformis in an infant bitten by a wild rat. the autopsy findings included an interstitial pneumonia, fibrinous endocarditis, mild mononuclear meni ... | 1989 | 2718962 |
| outbreak of fever caused by streptobacillus moniliformis. | a large outbreak of streptobacillary fever, confirmed by the isolation of streptobacillus moniliformis from blood culture, affected 304 people, 43% of the total population of 700 in a boarding school. raw milk initially appeared to be the vehicle of infection, but detailed epidemiological investigation showed significant statistical associations between the development of illness and the consumption of both milk and water. further analysis showed that the association with water was independent o ... | 1987 | 2890953 |
| comparison of media with and without 'panmede' for the isolation of streptobacillus moniliformis from blood cultures and observations on the inhibitory effect of sodium polyanethol sulphonate. | fastidious anaerobe broth and brain-heart infusion cysteine broth supplemented with 'panmede' (a papain digest of ox liver) 2.5% supported the recovery of five streptobacillus moniliformis strains from simulated blood cultures. other media tested in parallel--brain heart infusion cysteine broth without 'panmede' and brewer's thioglycollate broth--were unreliable. sodium polyanethol sulphonate (liquoid) 0.05%, inhibited five isolates of s. moniliformis, including isolates from patients with haver ... | 1985 | 2984425 |
| effect of sodium polyanetholesulfonate and gelatin on the recovery of gardnerella vaginalis from blood culture media. | sodium polyanetholesulfonate (sps) is used as a routine supplement to blood culture media to enhance recovery of microorganisms, but it inhibits the growth of peptostreptococcus anaerobius, neisseria meningitidis, neisseria gonorrhoeae, and streptobacillus moniliformis. comparative clinical blood culture studies at the university of colorado hospital suggested that sps also inhibits the growth of gardnerella vaginalis. we inoculated 16 blood culture isolates of g. vaginalis into 11 blood culture ... | 1985 | 2987298 |
| [streptobacillus moniliformis causing refractory inflammation in a diabetic]. | | 1988 | 3168824 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis polyarthritis mimicking rheumatoid arthritis: an urban case of rat bite fever. | | 1988 | 3189374 |
| rat-bite fever in a gerbil breeder. | a case of rat-bite fever caused by streptobacillus moniliformis in a gerbil-breeder is described. such a case has not been previously recorded. | 1988 | 3351317 |
| numerical analysis of electrophoretic protein patterns of streptobacillus moniliformis strains from human, murine and avian infections. | a total of 31 cultures representing 22 different strains of streptobacillus moniliformis has been characterised by unidimensional sds-page of cell proteins. the isolates were from sporadic and outbreak cases of human infection in the usa, uk and france, as well as mouse, turkey and rat isolates from various countries. the protein patterns, which contained 40-50 discrete bands, were highly reproducible and were used as the basis for a numerical analysis. three clusters were obtained at the 86% si ... | 1987 | 3585963 |
| [streptobacillus moniliformis endocarditis. apropos of 2 cases]. | the authors report two cases of endocarditis secondary to streptobacillus moniliformis. a 41 year-old man, bitten by a rat, is hospitalized 5 weeks later for an endocarditis demonstrated by echocardiography, with massive aortic escape and hemodynamic failure requiring emergency valve replacement: after a favorable course, the patient dies suddenly 4 months later. a 63 year-old woman is admitted for a septicemic syndrome with sterno-clavicular arthritis which occurred 10 days after a rat bite; fo ... | 1987 | 3619383 |
| rat-bite fever as a cause of septic arthritis: a diagnostic dilemma. | rat-bite fever results from an infection with the organism streptobacillus moniliformis. symptomatic patients often present with fever, malaise, cough, maculopapular rash, and occasional arthritis, and usually have a history of rodent exposure. this report describes a patient with rat-bite fever resulting in suppurative arthritis. the patient's diagnosis was made by culture of s moniliformis from his left wrist. the diagnosis was delayed, however, owing to the lack of an exposure history, atypic ... | 1987 | 3689005 |
| septic arthritis due to streptobacillus moniliformis. | | 1987 | 3827962 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis endocarditis. a case report. | | 1986 | 3943256 |
| characterisation and antibiotic susceptibilities of streptobacillus moniliformis. | the characteristics of seven strains of streptobacillus moniliformis, including four isolates from a recent outbreak of haverhill fever, are reported. acid production from carbohydrates was uniform apart from variable reactions with mannose and salicin. enzymatic reactions determined by the api zym system and fatty-acid profiles were generally consistent and may be of value in the rapid identification of s. moniliformis. penicillin was the most active of the antibiotics tested in vitro, which su ... | 1986 | 3950962 |
| rat bite fever: report of a fatal case. | two days following a rat bite, a 3-month-old boy presented to the ed with a temperature of 40 c and several puncture wounds on his right hand. he died after a fulminating illness. postmortem examination revealed endocarditis, interstitial pneumonia, hepatic and splenic congestion, and arthritis. blood cultures revealed the presence of streptobacillus moniliformis. rat bite fever is rare in the united states, occurring most commonly in children and laboratory personnel. | 1985 | 4051282 |
| the isolation of streptobacillus moniliformis from cervical abscesses of guinea-pigs. | | 1974 | 4421530 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis isolated from a case of haverhill fever: biochemical characterization and inhibitory effect of sodium polyanethol sulfonate. | | 1973 | 4586017 |
| etiology of chronic pneumonia in rats and a study of the experimental disease in mice. | the lungs of conventional rats with chronic pneumonia contained streptobacillus moniliformis and mycoplasma pulmonis. these organisms singly and in combination failed to produce lung disease when inoculated into specific pathogen-free rats. on the other hand, diseased lung homogenate not containing cultivable organisms caused a chronic pneumonia when inoculated into specific pathogen-free rats. the organism involved was seen by electron microscopy and is morphologically indistinguishable from th ... | 1972 | 4634460 |
| host-parasite relationships in experimental streptobacillus moniliformis arthritis in mice. | several variables of host and parasite, relating to the establishment of the chronic streptobacillus moniliformis-induced arthritis, were studied. results from these studies indicated (i) that intravenous inoculation of the organism produced a progressive bacteremia and a polyarthritis, whereas subcutaneous inoculation into the top of the back foot produced an intermittent bacteremia and arthritis only in that foot, (ii) that serum-broth-grown cells were more virulent than serum-agar-grown cells ... | 1972 | 4635498 |
| [meningitis caused by streptobacillus moniliformis]. | | 1973 | 4792509 |
| transitional forms of corynebacterium acnes in disease. | a clear-cut triad of sequential corynebacterium acnes transitional forms from disease has been discovered. this entity includes three major forms which are capable of stabilization in culture, the spherical, the intermediate, and the definitive c. acnes. during conversion or reversion among the three forms, a variety of forms with mixed characteristics was observed. the spherical form was gram-negative and osmotically fragile, but it possessed a vestigial cell wall and mesosomes which excluded i ... | 1969 | 4886295 |
| the chemical composition of the cell envelope of streptobacillus moniliformis. | | 1969 | 4894281 |
| cholesterol requirement of mycoplasmas. | cholesterol requirement for growth of mycoplasmas was tested in a serum-free medium supplemented with albumin, l-arginine, palmitic acid, and various concentrations of cholesterol dissolved in tween 80. in cases in which tween 80 was shown to inhibit growth, the test medium was supplemented with cholesterol dissolved in ethanol. of the 31 species examined, all but mycoplasma laidlawii, m. granularum, and mycoplasma species strain s-743 exhibited a growth response to cholesterol. no requirement f ... | 1970 | 4911537 |
| polyacrylamide gel identification of bacterial l-forms and mycoplasma species of human origin. | polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic patterns of acidified phenol extracts prepared from whole cells can be used for the identification of bacterial l-forms and mycoplasma species of human origin. ten human mycoplasma serotypes and eight l-forms belonging to five different genera were studied. the gel patterns were sufficiently distinct and reproducible that it was possible not only to identify l-forms at the genus level (group with streptococci) and different mycoplasma serotypes but also to diff ... | 1971 | 4994354 |
| [neurologic complications of septicemias caused by haverhillia multiformis]. | | 1971 | 4998359 |
| differential action of a streptococcal bacteriocin on mycoplasmas and microbial l-forms. | bacteriocin activity of streptococcus faecalis var. zymogenes was tested against a variety of bacteria, l-forms, and mycoplasmas. both a partially purified liquid preparation and a colony overlay technique were used. other s. faecalis strains were the only bacteria whose growth was inhibited. the liquid preparation inhibited growth of all but three of the tested l-forms (whether derived from gram-positive or gram-negative bacteria), and two of these exceptional organisms were inhibited when the ... | 1971 | 5005294 |
| polyacrylamide gel identification of bacterial l-forms and mycoplasma species of human origin. | | 1971 | 5544289 |
| [case of febrile eruption after a cat bite: streptobacillus moniliformis septicemia?]. | | 1967 | 5630378 |
| the membrane of the streptobacillus moniliformis l-phase. | | 1968 | 5729609 |
| natural streptobacillus moniliformis infection of turkeys, and attempts to infect turkeys, sheep, and pigs. | | 1969 | 5816049 |
| [atypical otomastoiditis due to haverhillia multiformis (streptobacillus moniliformis)]. | | 1965 | 5827323 |
| rat-bite fever due to streptobacillus moniliformis. | | 1966 | 5933833 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis infection in turkeys. | | 1966 | 5968147 |
| endocarditis due to streptobacillus moniliformis. | | 1967 | 6071862 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis isolated from blood in four cases of haverhill fever. | during february, 1983, an outbreak of an unusual febrile illness occurred in over 130 children attending a boarding school in chelmsford, essex. the clinical features included fever, an erythematous rash that was most prominent on the hands and feet, arthralgia, and the subsequent development of a sore throat. the nature and distribution of the rash varied considerably between patients and at different stages of illness. at first a viral aetiology was regarded as most likely. when streptobacillu ... | 1983 | 6134972 |
| rapid identification of streptobacillus moniliformis. | | 1983 | 6136713 |
| brain abscess due to streptobacillus moniliformis and actinobacterium meyerii. | this paper deals with a case of brain abscess due to streptobacillus moniliformis (the cause of the streptobacillary type of rat-bite fever) and actinobacterium meyerii. brain abscesses due to these micro-organisms are rare. the possible causative mechanisms in this particular case and the diagnostic and therapeutic management of brain abscesses in general are discussed. | 1984 | 6490171 |
| [joint disease in turkeys caused by streptobacillus moniliformis in germany]. | | 1982 | 6756874 |
| rat-bite fever in animal research laboratory personnel. | a laboratory animal technician experienced undulating fever, chills, and myalgia 3 days after he was bitten by a laboratory rat. the clinical symptoms subsided with antibiotic therapy, but recurrent fever, malaise, and joint pain occurred when therapy was discontinued. streptobacillus moniliformis was cultured from the patient's blood. | 1983 | 6876736 |
| infective endocarditis caused by uncommon bacteria. | the present study is an attempt to define the uncommon bacteria (ub) causing endocarditis and to evaluate their prevalence and clinical significance. review of 13 series (including ours) revealed that ub were the infecting organisms in 105/1989 patients (5.3%). the leading bacteria were: pneumococcus, haemophilus sp., corynebacterium sp., neisseria sp., streptobacillus moniliformis, cardiobacterium hominis and erysipelothrix sp. these data are similar to those obtained from 111 sporadic case rep ... | 1983 | 6879116 |
| [streptobacillus moniliformis septicemia]. | | 1982 | 7079138 |
| streptobacillus actinoides (bacillus actinoides): isolation from pneumonic lungs of calves and pathogenicity studies in gnotobiotic calves. | pneumonic lungs of 56 calves were examined and 12 (21 per cent) of them yielded streptobacillus moniliformis-like organisms. these organisms resembled those previously described as bacillus actinoides or actinobacillus actinoides. after intratracheal inoculation of cultures of two strains of these organisms, pneumonic consolidation developed in five out of six gnotobiotic calves and involved up to 16 per cent of the lung surface. histological lesions of interstitial pneumonia were observed in th ... | 1982 | 7089379 |
| clinical microbiological, and histological manifestations of streptobacillus moniliformis-induced arthritis in mice. | intravenous inoculation of streptobacillus moniliformis into mice resulted in an infection in which the predominant feature was progressive polyarthritis that rendered some joints immobile within 6 months. no migration of arthritis from joint to joint or remission and exacerbation were apparent. viable organisms were apparently removed by the host from blood, liver, and spleen within 28 days post inoculation but persisted in joints for approximately 6 months in some animals. specific antibody wa ... | 1981 | 7309242 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis septicaemia in spinifex hopping mice (notomys alexis) | | 1981 | 7342940 |
| amnionitis with intact amniotic membranes involving streptobacillus moniliformis. | a 23-year-old black woman was admitted to the hospital in premature labor with intact amniotic membranes. the patient was afebrile and did not have any obvious signs of infection. gram stain of the amniotic fluid, obtained via transabdominal amniocentesis, revealed the presence of gram-negative rods. the bacterium was identified as streptobacillus moniliformis, the agent of rat-bite fever. | 1980 | 7360458 |
| rat-bite fever caused by streptobacillus moniliformis. | | 1994 | 7667732 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis--a zoonotic pathogen. taxonomic considerations, host species, diagnosis, therapy, geographical distribution. | streptobacillus moniliformis (sm), the causative agent of rat-bite fever and haverhill fever in man, is also a pathogen in certain laboratory and domestic animals. with the introduction of modern maintenance systems, this microorganism seemed to be eradicated from laboratory animal units, but recent reports of streptobacillus moniliformis (sm) in colonies of laboratory rodents give evidence that this 'forgotten' bacterium can still be found even behind hygienic barrier systems. although various ... | 1995 | 7707673 |
| difficulties encountered in identification of a nutritionally deficient streptococcus on the basis of its failure to revert to streptococcal morphology. | difficulties were encountered in the recognition of a nutritionally deficient streptococcus which continued to display aberrant morphologic forms (especially bulbous swellings and filament formation) despite provision of growth factors. with isolates displaying diverse morphologic entities not characteristic of a given species, e.g., streptobacillus moniliformis or erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, nutritionally deficient streptococci should be considered. | 1995 | 7790428 |
| polyarthritis in wild mice (mus musculus) caused by streptobacillus moniliformis. | mice trapped on farms in south-eastern queensland had chronic abscessating osteoarthritides mainly involving the carpi and tarsi. pleomorphic bacteria were shown by silver staining to be plentiful within lesions. streptobacillus moniliformis was isolated from the joints, and streptobacillary polyarthritis was diagnosed. other lesions observed included subcutaneous and hepatic abscesses. | 1994 | 8067948 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis infection in a child with chickenpox. | | 1994 | 8072828 |
| dog-associated bacterial infections in humans: isolates submitted to an australian reference laboratory, 1981-1992. | over the period 1981-92, 32 bacterial isolates were referred to the microbiological diagnostic unit from infected dog-bite wounds and 10 isolates were submitted from blood cultures after dog bites or close contact with dogs. the isolates from the bite wounds were identified, or confirmed, as pasteurella multocida (11 isolates), pasteurella dagmatis (3), cdc group m-5 (9), cdc group ef-4a (8) and streptococcus anginosus (1). five of the 9 patients from whom cdc group m-5 was cultured had mixed in ... | 1993 | 8165003 |
| [streptobacillus moniliformis: a rare anthropozoonosis sometimes observed in urban area]. | | 1993 | 8210127 |
| an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) for monitoring rodent colonies for streptobacillus moniliformis antibodies. | an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) to measure streptobacillus moniliformis antibodies in mice and rats was developed. twelve s. moniliformis strains originating from cases of rat-bite fever and haverhill fever in man and from various rodent species, showed considerable serological relationship. the elisa appeared specific since antibodies to s. moniliformis were absorbed by autologous and homologous antigen, but not by heterologous bacterial antigens. acholeplasma laidlawii showed part ... | 1993 | 8277708 |
| [rat-bite--an infant bitten by a rat]. | three days after a rat-bite a two-month-old girl developed clinical symptoms of streptobacillus moniliformis infection, called rat-bite fever. she became seriously ill, but responded well to treatment with benzylpencillin. in the light of our case and previous publications, we recommend prophylactic penicillin to be given to infants after rat-bites. | 1993 | 8316977 |
| cutaneous abscess: a rare complication of streptobacillus moniliformis infection. | | 1993 | 8369220 |
| mutual viral and bacterial infections after housing rats of various breeders within an experimental unit. | fifteen athymic rat strains from 11 breeding colonies were housed within an experimental facility for an immunological study. health status records supplied with 14 of the strains listed infections by kilham's rat virus (krv), clostridium piliforme (bacillus piliformis) and pasteurella pneumotropica for 2, 2 and 1 colonies respectively. in sera taken previous to the study from euthymic rats of 10 strains, antibodies to krv were detected in 3 strains, to pneumonia virus of mice (pvm), rat corona ... | 1996 | 8709572 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis infection in swiss white mice. | an epizootic of disease attributed to infection with streptobacillus moniliformis occurred in a colony of swiss white mice. the mortality rate among the 180 breeding females in the 6 affected pens was 100%, and most of the sucking young died from starvation. acute septicemia, subacute septicemia, and polyarthritis were the 3 forms of disease observed. clinically, septicemic mice either were found dead or were depressed and hunched for 1-2 days prior to death. about a half of these mice had brown ... | 1996 | 8744742 |
| [streptobacillus moniliformis septic oligoarthritis (fever caused by rat bite)]. | | 1996 | 8767083 |
| isolation of presumptive streptobacillus moniliformis from abscesses associated with the female genital tract. | we report three cases in which streptobacillus moniliformis was isolated from abscesses. abscess material in each case contained small, pleomorphic, gram-negative to gram-variable bacilli. anaerobic blood agar cultures yielded pinpoint colonies adjacent to small gray-white colonies. the pinpoint colonies did not gram stain, and the gray-white colonies varied from gram-variable coccobacilli to long, curly, gram-variable rods. the pinpoint colonies microscopically resembled l-forms on dienes-stain ... | 1996 | 8852965 |
| rat-bite fever--new mexico, 1996. | rat-bite fever (rbf) is a systemic bacterial illness caused by streptobacillus moniliformis that can be acquired through the bite or scratch of a rodent or the ingestion of food or water contaminated with rat feces. cases are rarely reported in the united states and the true incidence of disease is unknown. on august 7, 1996, a physician in a rural community reported a case of infection with s. moniliformis bacteremia in a 15-year-old boy to the new mexico department of health. this report summa ... | 1998 | 9480409 |
| rat bite fever in a pet lover. | rat-bite fever is an uncommon bacterial illness resulting from infection with streptobacillus moniliformis that is often transmitted by the bite of a rat. the cutaneous findings in rat-bite fever are nonspecific but have been described as maculopapular or petechial. we describe a 9-year-old girl with acrally distributed hemorrhagic pustules, fever, and arthralgias. diagnosis was delayed because of difficulty in identifying the pathologic organism. she was successfully treated with 10 days of cef ... | 1998 | 9486709 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis infection: 2 cases and a literature review. | two cases of streptobacillus moniliformis infection are reported in farmers bitten by rats during their work. one patient had a subcutaneous abscess requiring surgical treatment and the other streptobacillary rat bite fever. streptobacillus moniliformis was isolated from pus and blood, respectively. an erythromycin course failed to eradicate the infection in the first patient. both patients were successfully treated with penicillin. | 1998 | 9790145 |
| septic arthritis of the hip secondary to rat bite fever: a case report. | rat bite fever is a rare infection typically caused by streptobacillus moniliformis. the mode of transmission is most commonly through a bite or scratch from an infected rat. this disease is characterized by polyarthritis, fever, and a delayed onset erythematous maculopapular rash of the extremities. the authors report a case of rat bite fever, which led to septic arthritis of the hip. to the authors' knowledge, the complication of hip sepsis requiring an arthrotomy has not been reported in the ... | 2000 | 11064988 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis endocarditis in an hiv-positive patient. | streptobacillus moniliformis is the causative agent of rat bite fever, with endocarditis being a rare but well-documented complication. we report the case of an hiv-positive man who acquired s. moniliformis endocarditis through a rat bite. no predisposing cardiac lesion was known. he was treated with ceftriaxone 2 g/day i.v. for 3 weeks, gentamicin 120 mg/day i.v. for 2 weeks and penicillin 24x10(6) units/day for 1 week. at the end of the antibiotic therapy he suffered a generalized candida albi ... | 2000 | 11139161 |
| remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema associated with subcutaneous streptobacillus moniliformis abscess. | we describe an 84-year-old woman who developed remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema (rs3pe) associated with a subcutaneous abscess of the hand due to streptobacillus moniliformis. polyarthritis and edema were relieved after therapy with corticosteroids. we review the association of rs3pe to different rheumatologic, neoplastic, or infectious diseases. | 2001 | 11469482 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis: case report and review of the literature. | streptobacillus moniliformis is one of the causes of rat bite fever. the clinical and microbiological diagnosis of this rare infectious disease is often quite problematic. penicillin, in sufficiently high dosis, is the treatment of choice and leads to a prompt resolution of the infection, whereas lack of treatment leads to a 13% mortality rate. as far as we know, this paper reports the first human isolate in belgium. | 2001 | 11484516 |
| a rare and serious consequence of a rat bite. | contact with rat saliva or faeces can lead to infection with streptobacillus moniliformis and the condition known as 'rat bite fever'. we report a case of septic arthritis of the hip due to this organism following a bite on the finger of a 14-year-old boy from a rat for sale in a pet shop. the case was successfully treated by arthrotomy, drainage and joint lavage followed by administration of penicillin. septic arthritis of the hip due to s. moniliformis has not been previously described and thi ... | 2001 | 11518380 |
| rat-bite fever (streptobacillus moniliformis): a potential emerging disease. | to determine the relative prevalence of human infections attributable to streptobacillus moniliformis in california over the past 3 decades. | 2001 | 11724672 |
| broad range polymerase chain reaction for diagnosis of rat-bite fever caused by streptobacillus moniliformis. | an 11-year-old boy presented with fever, vomiting, rash, limping and blisters on his feet after a finger bite by his domestic rat. although cultures from blood, cerebrospinal fluid and urine remained negative, broad range polymerase chain reaction amplification of a part of the 16s rrna gene followed by sequencing allowed the detection and identification of streptobacillus moniliformis in blister fluid, thus confirming the suspected clinical diagnosis of rat-bite fever. | 2001 | 11740332 |
| [rat-bite fever]. | rat bite fever and haverhill fever are caused by streptobacillus moniliformis which is part of the natural oral flora of rats and other rodents. fever accompanied by headache, nausea and myalgia develops within ten days. complications can be fatal. | 2001 | 11757440 |
| pcr for the detection of streptobacillus moniliformis. | streptobacillus moniliformis is a gram-negative bacterium found in various laboratory animal species and is the cause of rat bite fever and haverhill fever in man. in order to evaluate a polymerase chain reaction (pcr) for the detection of this zoonotic bacterium in animal tissues a set of primers was designed based on the dna base sequence of part of the 16s rrna gene from 11 s. moniliformis strains. the pcr detected as few as 2-6 copies of s. moniliformis dna. a 296 bp dna fragment was amplifi ... | 2002 | 11943086 |
| rat-bite fever in children: case report and review. | we report 2 cases of rat-bite fever (rbf), a multisystem zoonosis, in children and review the literature. rbf is caused by i of 2 gram-negative organisms: streptobacillus moniliformis or, less commonly, spirillum minus. both of our cases developed in school-aged girls with a history of rat exposure who presented with a multisystem illness consisting of fever, petechial and purpuric rash, arthralgia and polyarthritis. both responded promptly to antibiotic treatment. an additional 10 cases from a ... | 2002 | 12160180 |
| [digital purpura revealing septicaemical rat-bite fever]. | infection with streptobacillus moniliformis is an uncommon illness which can lead to death if untreated. we report the case in which initially cutaneous signs permitted diagnosis and further identification of the organism. | 2002 | 12442129 |
| spontaneous rat bite fever in non-human primates: a review of two cases. | rat bite fever is a worldwide zoonotic, non-reportable disease. this entity encompasses similar, yet distinct, disease syndromes caused by streptobacillus moniliformis or spirillum minus. naturally occurring rat bite fever has not been previously described in non-human primates. this report describes two cases of non-human primate rat bite fever caused by s. moniliformis; a rhesus macaque (macaca mullata) with valvular endocarditis, and a titi monkey (callicebus sp.) with septic arthritis. poten ... | 2002 | 12519213 |
| bacteremia by streptobacillus moniliformis: first case described in spain. | described here is the case of an 87-year-old man who developed fever, chills and discomfort caused by streptobacillus moniliformis. this pathogen is one of the causes of rat-bite fever, an uncommon bacterial illness transmitted through a bite or scratch from a rodent or the ingestion of food or water contaminated with rat faeces. cases of rat-bite fever are rarely reported in spain. the patient reported no history of rat bite or rodent contact, and the only known risk factor was contact with a d ... | 2003 | 12709841 |
| [acute fever due to rats]. | the bite of a rat can transmit diverse micro-organisms; however, the development of health measures and the improved conditions of habitability of homes have meant that the infectious diseases transmitted by the aggressions of these animals are infrequent in industrialised countries. in occasional circumstances this type of aggression can still take place, especially in depressed areas on the periphery of big cities and in uninhabited premises, this being a possibility that it is advisable to be ... | 2002 | 12861297 |
| rat bite fever without fever. | rat bite fever is a rarely reported acute febrile bacterial illness caused by streptobacillus moniliformis or spirillum minus following a rat bite. it is classically characterised by abrupt onset of fever with rigors, myalgias, headache, and the appearance of a generalised maculopapular petechial skin rash. polyarthritis complicates the course of the disease in up to 50% of infected patients, and numerous hurdles can make the diagnosis particularly difficult in the absence of fever or rash, as i ... | 2003 | 12922966 |
| ratbite fever; report of a case due to actinomyces muris. | | 1953 | 13036034 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis infection complicated by acute bacterial endocarditis; report of a case in a physician following bite of laboratory rat. | | 1953 | 13079342 |
| [finding in mexico of streptobacillus moniliformis]. | | 1953 | 13134911 |
| [cranial base fracture with purulent meningitis due to streptobacillus moniliformis]. | | 1954 | 13165801 |
| streptobacillus moniliformis infection in mice. | | 1956 | 13326443 |
| experimental investigations into the pathogenicity of the l-phase variant of streptobacillus moniliformis. | | 1956 | 13326444 |