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Severine Loridant1, Marie-Christine Jaffar-Bandjee, Bernard La Scola
1Unite de Recherche sur le Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, UMR 6236, Institut Federatif de Recherche 48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France. sloridant@yahoo.fr
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
|February 5, 2011
Abstract:
Streptobacillus moniliformis is a fastidious growing Gram-negative bacillus responsible of rat-bite fever. We describe here the first report of this disease in la Réunion and the first isolation using shell vial cell culture from a blood culture bottle with a bacterium suspected to be dead.
