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

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

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 th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Emerging infectious diseases 2018, Vol.24 (7), p.1377-1379
Hauptverfasser: Ogawa, Yoshihiko, Kasahara, Kei, Lee, Sang-Tae, Ito, Takamitsu, Hasegawa, Hideo, Hirose, Sachie, Santo, Shigeru, Yoshida, Atsushi, Nakano, Ryuichi, Yano, Hisakazu, Mikasa, Keiichi
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid2407.171580