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OJVRTM
Online Journal of
Veterinary Research©
Volume 19(3): 212-215,
2015.
Occupational risk of Streptobacillus moniliformis
infection (Rat bite fever) in conventional animal houses.
Baharak Akhtardanesh a, Masoud
Moghadaszadeh b,*, Maryam Z. Abedini c, Shima Rashidian d, Vahid Ghaffarilaleh e
a Department(s) of
Clinical Sciences and b,* Pathobiology, School of Veterinary
Medicine, Shahid Bahonar
University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran, c Department of English
languages, School of Social sciences and Humanities, University of Urmia,
Urmia, Iran, d Department of Pathobiology, Islamic Azad University
of Kerman, Kerman, Iran, e Department of Animal Production, Veterinaria Facultad Autonoma, University de Barcelona, Spain.
ABSTRACT
Akhtardanesh B, Moghadaszadeh M, Abedini MZ, Rashidian S, Ghaffarilaleh V., Occupational risk of Streptobacillus
moniliformis infection (Rat bite fever) in
conventional animal houses, Onl J Vet Res., 19(3): 212-215, 2015. Streptobacillus moniliformis a commensal organism of the upper
respiratory tract of laboratory and wild rats causes rat bite and Haverhill
fever in man. To estimate the occupational hazard associated with Streptobacillus moniliformis infection
in individuals working in conventional animal houses, random sampling
from 250 adult rats were performed. Nasopharynx swabs were cultured
on blood Agar, trypticase soy agar and trypticase soy broth media. S. moniliformis
was isolated from 120 (48%) apparently healthy rats. The data suggested that there was a risk of rat bite fever in humans from laboratory rats.
Key words: Streptobacillus moniliformis, conventional
animal houses,
rats.
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