Present study was based on a parasitic survey of captured domestic rat (Rattus rattus) at five selected study sites including, Gampaha, Dalugama, Kadawatha, Sedawatte-Bloemandhal and Wattala,of the Western Province, Sri Lanka. Study also included examination of enteric parasite stages in fresh fecal samples of residents, domestic cats and dogs of the Sedawatte-Bloemandhal, a shanty area. Result...

A 24 year old Thai male laborer from Bangkok, complained of fever, multiple joint pain and skin rash for 10 days. He was bitten on the right foot by a rat while he was entering a store room. Four days later, he developed diarrhea which was successfully self-treated with an antidiarrheal drug. The next day, he began to have high fever, malaise and headache which was temporarily relieved by dipyr...

To investigate the status of conventional laboratory mice colonies for zoonotic bacteria, three mice colonies, NIH, NMRI and Balb/c strains of Razi institute were studied for five zoonotic bacteria including Pasteurella pneumotropica, Salmonella typhimurium, Salmonella enteritidis, Streptobacillus moniliformis, Streptococcus Pneumonia. Study populations were 74 mice of premature, mature and pos...

Rattus spp trapped in wet markets in Quiapo, Manila and Balayan, Batangas had ectoparasites, Echinolaelaps echidnius (mite), and Polyplax spinulosa (louse). The endoparasites identified were Hymenolepis diminuta; the acanthocephalan Moniliformis moniliformis; Taenia taeniaeformis strobilocercus larvae and Capillaria hepatica in liver; Trichosomoides crassicauda of the urinary bladder; Sarcocyst...

The maize pathogen Gibberella moniliformis produces fumonisins, a group of mycotoxins associated with several disorders in animals and humans, including cancer. The current focus of our research is to understand the regulatory mechanisms involved in fumonisin biosynthesis. In this study, we employed a proteomics approach to identify novel genes involved in the fumonisin biosynthesis under nitro...

BACKGROUND Streptobacillus moniliformis is a zoonotic agent associated with rodent contacts. Although it is more commonly reported to cause rat-bite fever with reactive arthritides, it can also lead to pyogenic infection of the joints. CASE PRESENTATION We present a lady with past history of osteoarthritis developing streptobacillary septic arthritides of the right knee and left wrist, and re...

Streptobacillus moniliformis Levaditi et al. 1925 is the type and sole species of the genus Streptobacillus, and is of phylogenetic interest because of its isolated location in the sparsely populated and neither taxonomically nor genomically much accessed family 'Leptotrichiaceae' within the phylum Fusobacteria. The 'Leptotrichiaceae' have not been well characterized, genomically or taxonomical...