Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2018)

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2407.171580
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 7
pp. 1377 – 1379

Abstract

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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.

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