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Laboratory Diagnostic Tests in the Evaluation of Fever
Published in Benedict Isaac, Serge Kernbaum, Michael Burke, Unexplained Fever, 2019
Streptobacillus moniliformis is cultured in highly supplemented media using specialized techniques. Direct examination of joint fluid and other exudates is occasionally helpful; and agglutinating antibodies may be demonstrated in the sera of patients.
Syphilis
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.
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Published in Anton Sebastian, A Dictionary of the History of Medicine, 2018
Haverhill Fever Erythemia athriticum epidemicum caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis. A type of rat bite fever first described by Parker and Hudson during an epidemic at Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1926. Edwin Hemphill Place also gave a description of the disease in the same year.
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
Streptobacillus moniliformis, a common representative of the nasopharyngeal flora of rodents, is the causative agent of the zoonosis rat bite fever. The clinical presentation with fever, migratory polyarthralgias and fluctuating skin rash encompasses a broad differential diagnosis. Due to the fastidious nature of the organism, sensitivity of standard microbiological culture is limited. The zoonosis has a potentially lethal course in a vulnerable population (children and low socioeconomic class) and a commonly available standard therapy (penicillin). This case report review outlines common epidemiological and clinical factors to improve clinical awareness and timely response to therapeutic actions.
Erosive polyarthritis caused by sepsis due to a novel species of Streptobacillus notomytis
Published in Modern Rheumatology Case Reports, 2020
Takeshi Kusuda, Asami Ryoko, Masuda Yoshishige, Masashi Tanaka, Atsushi Yoshida, Ken Kikuchi, Takahiko Sugihara
The present case suggests that polyarthritis caused by RBF consists of reactive arthritis and suppurative erosive arthritis. Streptobacillus infection should be considered as a differential diagnosis of polyarthritis.