| streptobacillus | A genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria that require serum, ascitic fluid, or blood for growth. Its organisms inhabit the throat and nasopharynx of wild and laboratory rats and cause one form of rat-bite fever in man. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| Streptobacillus moniliformis | A species commonly found as an inhabitant of the nasopharynx of rats; it occurs as the aetiologic agent of an epizootic septic polyarthritis in mice and of one type of rat-bite fever; it is the type species of the genus Streptobacillus. (05 Mar 2000) |