Shell vial cell culture as a tool for Streptobacillus moniliformis "resuscitation".

ABSTRACT: Streptobacillus moniliformis is a fastidious growing Gram-negative bacillus responsible of rat-bite fever. We describe here the first report of this disease in la Réunion and the first isolation using shell vial cell culture from a blood culture bottle with a bacterium suspected to be dead.

SUBMITTER: Loridant S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3029187 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature