A disease contracted from the bite of a rat which causes inflammation of the skin and fever or vomiting.
This disease can be caused by either of two bacteria, Spirillum minus or Streptobacillus moniliformis
Example sentencesExamples
- In the United States, two people have died of rat-bite fever, which is believed to have come from pet animals.
- In January the CDC reported two fatal cases of rat-bite fever and linked the disease Tularemia in hamsters to humans for the first time.