A 27-year-old male researcher presents with sudden-onset fever, chills, headache, a skin rash, and painful swelling of the wrist and knee joints.Upon questioning, the patient reveals that he was bitten by a rat in his laboratory a few days ago; the bite wound has since healed.
A blood work-up is ordered and indicates leukocytosis.In addition, a bacterial species is isolated from the blood and synovial fluid of the inflamed joints.
The patient is treated and he makes a full recovery.
What infection did this patient have?
What is the causative organism?
Leukocytosis is increse in the number of white blood cells to fight infection.
This patient is having rat bite fever which generally leads to symptoms of fever with chills,headache, rash, polyarthralgias or myalgias in the initial stage and can be treated completly in this stage and a mortality rate upto 13% if untreated
The causative organism is Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minus. It is a gram mnegative, non motile, acid fast rod. This disase caused by this is also called as Sodoku
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