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| RRC ID | 17438 |
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| Author | Kimura M, Tanikawa T, Suzuki M, Koizumi N, Kamiyama T, Imaoka K, Yamada A. |
| Title | Detection of Streptobacillus spp. in feral rats by specific polymerase chain reaction. |
| Journal | Microbiol Immunol |
| Abstract |
Streptobacillus moniliformis is an etiological agent of rat-bite fever and Haverhill fever in human infection. As the currently available methods for identifying the causative bacteria are not satisfactory, we attempted to establish them by PCR using newly designed primers for the 16S rRNA gene of S. moniliformis. We then determined the prevalence of Streptobacillus spp. in two species of feral rats that inhabit an urban region in Japan, because information on the prevalence of the bacteria in feral rats is obscure. The use of PCR with newly designed primers showed that an extremely high proportion of R. norvegicus harbored the bacteria (61/66, 92%), whereas the prevalence was only 58% in R. rattus (30/52). The nucleotide sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene of Streptobacillus spp. isolated from oral swabs of feral rats showed at least two different types of bacteria among isolates from R. norvegicus and R. rattus. |
| Volume | 52(1) |
| Pages | 9-15 |
| Published | 2008-1-1 |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2008.00005.x |
| PII | MIM005 |
| PMID | 18352907 |
| MeSH | Animals Bacterial Typing Techniques Cluster Analysis DNA Primers / genetics DNA, Bacterial / chemistry DNA, Bacterial / genetics DNA, Ribosomal / chemistry DNA, Ribosomal / genetics Fusobacterium Infections / microbiology Japan Molecular Sequence Data Polymerase Chain Reaction / methods* RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics Rats Sequence Analysis, DNA Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid Streptobacillus / classification Streptobacillus / isolation & purification* |
| IF | 1.566 |
| Times Cited | 22 |
| WOS Category | IMMUNOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY |
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