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Rat-bite fever (RBF) is an acute, febrile human illness caused by bacteria transmitted by rodents, in most cases, which is passed from rodent to human by the rodent's urine or mucous secretions. Alternative names for rat-bite fever include streptobacillary fever, streptobacillosis, spirillary fever, bogger, and epidemic arthritic erythema.
contact with urine, feces, or bodily fluids of infected rats; human-to-human transmission via bodily fluids Leishmaniasis: Leishmania spp. dogs, rodents, other animals [8] [9] sandfly bite 2004 Afghanistan. Leprosy: Mycobacterium leprae, Mycobacterium lepromatosis: armadillos, monkeys, rabbits, mice [10]
Rodent mite dermatitis (also known as rat mite dermatitis) is an often unrecognized ectoparasitosis occurring after human contact with haematophagous mesostigmatid mites that infest rodents, such as house mice, [1] rats [2] and hamsters. [3]
At least 11 people have died in Argentina after becoming infected with hantavirus, according to a news alert from the World Health Organization.
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Transmission electron micrograph of the Sin Nombre virus, the virus responsible for the outbreak. The spherical particles are virus bodies (virions). The 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak was an outbreak of hantavirus disease that occurred in the Four Corners region of the US states in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico.
Sacramento County health inspectors closed two local restaurants after discovering cockroaches and rat droppings. In addition, a liquor store, a brewery and other food-serving facilities received ...
Rats, like many other species, can be hosts to a number of diseases, and are known natural reservoirs of several zoonoses (infectious diseases able to be transmitted between species). Both Black rats and Brown rats are well known rodents that have had a close relationship with humans since the beginnings of civilization. They can also carry ...