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Published in Shiv Shanker Pareek, The Pictorial Atlas of Common Genito-Urinary Medicine, 2018
In rare cases, the following conditions may give false-positives to these high-specificity tests, but the less-sensitive non-treponemal tests should be negative: Lyme disease.yaws (a disease caused by a subspecies of the syphilis bacterium, T. pallidum pertenue).pinta (a disease caused by the bacterium T. pallidum carateum).leptospirosis (also called Weil’s disease).rat-bite fever (caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minus bacteria).pregnancy.
Engineering and infectious disease
Published in Sandy Cairncross, Richard Feachem, Environmental Health Engineering in the Tropics, 2018
Sandy Cairncross, Richard Feachem
Domestic solid waste is usually faecally contaminated, from anal cleansing material, soiled clothing and from defecation or the disposal of excreta on the refuse dump. Poor refuse disposal will encourage fly-breeding and may thus promote the transmission of faecal–oral infections as described above. It can also promote diseases associated with rats, such as plague, leptospirosis, salmonellosis, endemic typhus and rat-bite fever.
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Published in Anton Sebastian, A Dictionary of the History of Medicine, 2018
Rat Bite Fever The first report of rat bite fever was given by Whitman Wilcox in 1840, and Streptobacillus monoliformis was shown as its cause by Henry Vandyke Carter (1831–1897) in 1887. See Haverhill fever.
Rat bite fever: some comments on a case report review
Published in Acta Clinica Belgica, 2023
Secondly, rat bites account for approximately 1% of animal bites, with the risk of Streptobacillus moniliformis infection following a bite is about 10% [4]. RBF incidence must be largely underestimated due to frequent misdiagnoses (e.g. viral illness or rheumatologic disease), specialized techniques required to recover the microorganism from cultures, and lack of obligatory reporting of RBF infections [5]. Recently, various publications have suggested that Streptobacillus spp. might be far more common than previously thought [6]. The recent findings of Kache et al. (2020) of all cases reported in the period 2001–2015 in the United States reinforce that rat bite fever is rare, yet suggest it occurs more frequently than previously demonstrated in the review of 65 cases by Elliott in 2007 [6,7].
Rat bite fever: a case report review
Published in Acta Clinica Belgica, 2022
Marie Coessens, Emmanuel De Laere
Rat bite fever is a diagnosis that can be easily missed from both a clinical and a microbiological point of view. As such, rat bite fever is a part of the differential diagnosis in the case of a fever syndrome after being in contact with rodents. This diagnosis becomes more likely if polyarthralgia and rash are present simultaneously. In the case of persistent fever, blood culture sampling should be performed even in the absence of a systemic inflammatory response. A bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA PCR on blood or joint aspiration (cultures) is an even more sensitive diagnostic test for which the microbiological laboratory should be contacted. Since most transmissions occur in a domestic setting, keeping rats as pets cannot be recommended.