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Volume 28, Number 4—April 2022
Research Letter

Streptobacillus notomytis Bacteremia after Exposure to Rat Feces

Akira Kawashima, Satoshi KutsunaComments to Author , Akira Shimomura, Lubna Sato, Honami Ando, Tsutomu Tanikawa, Maki Nagashima, Tohru Miyoshi-Akiyama, Takeshi Inagaki, and Norio Ohmagari
Author affiliations: National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan (A. Kawashima, S. Kutsuna, A. Shimomura, L. Sato, H. Ando, M. Nagashima, T. Miyoshi-Akiyama, T. Inagaki, N. Ohmagari); Yamazaki Professional College of Animal Health Technology, Tokyo (T. Tanikawa)

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Results of testing for the causative agent of rat-bite fever in a 70-year-old woman in Japan. A) Gram-stained blood smear showing chain-shaped gram-negative bacilli; original magnification ×1,000. B) Small, smooth colonies in culture of healthy human serum (provided by one of the authors of this article) on 5% sheep blood agar. Further testing identified the bacilli as Streptobacillus notomytis.

Figure. Results of testing for the causative agent of rat-bite fever in a 70-year-old woman in Japan. A) Gram-stained blood smear showing chain-shaped gram-negative bacilli; original magnification ×1,000. B) Small, smooth colonies in culture of healthy human serum (provided by one of the authors of this article) on 5% sheep blood agar. Further testing identified the bacilli as Streptobacillus notomytis.

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