Resources

MMWR Articles

• Epidemiologic Notes and Reports Rat-Bite Fever in a College Student – California. MMWR 1984; 33(22): 318-320.
• Fatal Rat-Bite Fever — Florida and Washington, 2003. MMWR 2005; 53(51): 1198-1202.
• Notes from the Field: Fatal Rat-Bite Fever in a Child – San Diego County, California, 2013. MMWR 2014; 63(50): 1210-1211.
• Rat-Bite Fever – New Mexico, 1996. MMWR 1998; 47(05): 89-91.

EID Articles

• Balakrishnan N, Menon T, Shanmugasundaram S, Alagesan R. Streptobacillus moniliformis endocarditis [letter]. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Jun;12(6):1037-8.
• Schachter ME, Wilcox L, Rau N, Yamamura D, Brown S, Lee CH. Rat-bite Fever, Canada [letter]. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Aug;12(8):1301-2.

Other References

• Andre JM, Freydiere AM, Benito Y, Rousson A, Lansiaux S, Kodjo A, Mazzocchi C, Berthier JC, Vandenesch F, Floret D. Rat bite fever caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis in a child: human infection and rat carriage diagnosed by PCR. J Clin Pathol. 2005 Nov;58(11):1215-6.
• Elliott SP. 2007. Rat bite fever and Streptobacillus moniliformis. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 20:13-22.
• Gaastra W, Boot R, Ho H, Lipman L. Rat bite fever. Vet Microbiol 2009; 133:211-228.
• Hirschhorn RB, Hodge RR. Identification of risk factors in rat bite incidents involving humans. Pediatrics. 1999 Sep;104(3):e35.
• National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians Animal Contact Compendium Committee 2013. Compendium of measures to prevent disease associated with animals in public settings, 2013. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2013 Nov 1;243(9):1270-88.
• Wouters EG, Ho HT, Lipman LJ, Gaastra W. Dogs as vectors of Streptobacillus moniliformis infection?. Vet Microbiol. 2008 Apr 30;128(3-4):419-22. Epub 2007 Oct 25.