EC Microbiology

There are many infectious diseases of multiple etiologies that are transmitted through different routes, such as direct contact (dermatophytosis, monkeypox), inhalation (aspergillosis, chlamydiosis), ingestion (amoebiasis, shigellosis), bite of arthropods (Lyme disease, yellow fever), abraded skin/wound infection (necrobacillosis, tetanus), bite of animals (rabies, herpes simiae), and blood transfusion (toxoplasmosis, West Nile fever) [1-4]. Haver Hill fever also known as erythema arthriticum epidemicum, spirillary fever, streptobacillary rat bite fever, streptobacillosis, is an infectious zoonotic disease, which is caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis, a Gram negative, nonmotile, fastidious, non-spore forming, highly pleomorphic, rod-shaped bacterium that colonize the nasopharynx of healthy rats [2,5,6].

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