rat-bite fever

He spent several years investigating amoebic dysentery and trying to develop a vaccine from rat-bite fever.

The incidence of rat-bite fever is highest in urban areas with poor sanitation where the rat population is high.

Spirillum minus is associated with rat-bite fever.

Haverhill was the site of the eponymous Haverhill fever, also known as rat-bite fever, in 1926.

Rat-bite fever transmitted by the gram-negative spirochaete Spirillum minus is more rare, and is found most often in Asia.

Rat-bite fever (healthAtoZ.com)

The Streptobacillosis form of rat-bite fever is known by the alternative names Haverhill Fever and epidemic arthritic erythema.

Rats have long been associated with disease, but in New York, Dr. Mamphe said, Norway rats can cause only a skin infection called rat-bite fever.

Rodents still cause sickness and death by spreading rabies, salmonella, typhus, Lyme disease, leptospirosis, Black Death, and rat-bite fever.

Haverhill Fever (or epidemic arthritic erythema) is a form of "rat-bite fever" caused by the bacterium Streptobacillus moniliformis, an organism common in rats and mice.

Rat-bite fever is an acute, febrile human illness caused by bacteria transmitted by rodents, rats or mice in most cases, which is passed from rodent to human via the rodent's urine or mucous secretions.