Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 Aug;24(7):1377-1379. doi: 10.3201/eid2407.171580.
We report a case of rat-bite fever in a 94-year-old woman with Streptobacillus notomytis infection. We established an epidemiologic link between exposure to rats and human infection by performing nested PCRs that detected S. notomytis in the intraoral swab specimens obtained from rats captured in the patient's house.
我们报告了一例由念珠状链杆菌感染引起的 94 岁老年女性鼠咬热病例。通过巢式 PCR 检测从患者家中捕获的大鼠口腔拭子标本中是否存在念珠状链杆菌,我们建立了暴露于大鼠与人类感染之间的流行病学联系。