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Observations on the causal organism of rat-bite fever in man.

Publication Details

Ann. trop. Med. Parasit.,16, 157-75. 1924 CE.

Robertson proved one of the causal organisms of rat-bite fever to be Sp. morsus muris. He re-named it Spirillum minus Carter, 1887, identifying it as the first spiral micro-organism to be described from a rodent.

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Microbiology & Virology

Thematic Classifications

BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Gram-Negative Bacteria › Spirillium INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Animal Bite Wound Infections › Rat-Bite Fever

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